Meet the artist: Abigail Hunt

Meet artist Abigail Hunt who will be leading the new cycle of Play:Make:Art, our popular session for 2-5 year olds and their accompanying adults.

Abigail has over twenty years freelance experience teaching, facilitating and managing creative projects for galleries, museums and other organisations. She also creates visual resources and environments for audiences to explore contemporary art. Her research-based art practice incorporates collage, sculpture, installation, social engagement, environmental awareness and event-based performance.  

For Abigail, artworks hold the potential to become a site for exchange, exploration and the initiation of discussion, linking to a process, place or site, or a consideration of a space or situation.   

Through research investigations that challenge the concepts of collaboration, she explores generous artworks that look to further knowledge and practice in social engagement and participation. Deeply rooted in pedagogy, collaborative projects regularly work directly with groups and the general public to explore, co-design and to establish an arts-led, place-based community of practice.  

Abigail is committed to exploring projects with a careful consideration of working to lower environmental impact and to look towards using materials which are environmentally conscious and wherever possible can be extensively re-used before being eventually re-cycled.  

Abigail’s art practice in Play:Make:Art is at the forefront of the inspiring environments she creates for families to explore. All the materials she uses for the sessions are carefully considered and curated, enabling varying possibilities for children to respond in their own ways creating open-ended shared experiences and communication between adults and children.   

This year, Play:Make:Art is part of Orleans House Gallery’s research into Cultural Reforesting and it asks the question – how can we renew our relationship with nature?   

Learn more about Play:Make:Art here