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My work has transitioned a lot over the last 20 years, to a place I am proud of.
My most current endeavours really reflect my state of being in relation to the world around me right now, and also my acute sense of longing to bring about the best of all possible outcomes through my work. This has meant my concentration has fallen and fixed on what I consider to be worth savouring and admiring - an unapologetic and unreserved salute to the living things, which have no voice, politics, power, or financial clout. However I also like to point the finger at those who hold the power, and bring to light through my work, a sense of reflection about what we are doing to the planet we all share.
'Finding my roots', 2022; mixed media on panel, 80 x 62cm
Short Biography of Recent Times
Hunt has been very intentional in taking further strides towards establishing a stronger presence with her art practice in the public domain over the last five years. Kipling co-created an installation specifically designed to promote well-being during lockdown on the exterior of a house, yet still adhering to social distancing, when all the galleries had closed down. She was then picked by a panel of eminent artists, curators and advisors in 2022 for the KCAW 5th Public Art Trail, supported by the Kensington and Chelsea Festival; with her proposal for four brightly painted floral panels to be situated in Kensington Memorial Park. They succeeded in out-performing the remit of two months - and went on to live in the park for another two years. Brought back to the studio in early 2025, they have now been renovated and will be shown in her solo show 'Arrangements' at Avivson Gallery in September 2025.
Hunt has worked in many mediums over the years, and collaborated with a diverse group of people from fire arms experts, an art forger, squatters, to a business man turned guru on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, part of One and Other by Antony Gormley in 2009. She also inspired the band Deep Blue Sea to write a song from the title of her painting All I wanted was Rock Star Status, then see it performed at the 100 Club, London in 2018.
Kipling was a Derwent art prize nominee and exhibitor in 2013 with her piece Great Brampton House, only Time will Tell Series: 3D Printing Machine; and has works in the permanent collection of Martin Miller’s Estate and more recently in an acquisition made by the Bethlem Gallery part of the Maudsley Charity NHS Foundation Trust; as well as many other private collections both in the UK and internationally.
Biography
Born of Irish and English heritage
Lives & works in London
Education
2018 Postgrad. Painting, Essential School of Painting, tutor Bob and Roberta Smith OBE RA
2002-2006 Foundation & BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of the Art
1989-1991 BA History, with Social and Economic History, University of Birmingham
Technical education
2024 RHS Practical Level 2, Capel Manor Environmental College
2000 Foundation in Fashion, London College of Fashion
1987 Diploma in Spanish, University of Barcelona, Spain
Solo Exhibitions
2025 ‘Arrangements’, Avivson Gallery, London, UK
2025 ‘Re-Mastered’, DOH, London, UK
2024 ‘Awakenings – Part II’ and talk, DOH, London, UK
2023 ‘Awakenings’ , Avivson Gallery, London, UK
2022-24 ‘Home Grown’ Kensington Memorial Park, London UK
2022 ‘Home Grown’, Havelock Walk Studios, London, UK
2020/21 ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’, London, UK
2013 ‘Missing’, installation and artist residency, Great Brampton House, Herefordshire, UK
2008 ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’, London, UK
2007/08 ‘Parrot Fashion’, installation, various locations, London, UK & the Netherlands
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Winter Show, The Arches Studios, London UK
2023 DOH, The Arches Studios, London UK
2022 ‘Home Grown VII’, Bethlehem Gallery, Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust – bought for their permanent collection.
2022 5th Public Art trail, with installation ‘Home Grown’ in Kensington Memorial Park, supported by Kensington and Chelsea Festival
2021 Kipling Hunt & Emma Fenelon, Lambeth Open, London, UK
2020 Home Grown series, The Last Supper Club, London UK
2020 ‘The Healing Powers of Flowers’ Kipling Hunt, Fraser Lawson, Emma Fenelon, DOH, London, UK
2019 Kipling Hunt & Emma Fenelon, DOH, London, UK
2018 ‘All I wanted was Rock Star Status’, Deep Blue Sea, 100 Club, London, UK
2018 ESOP 23.4 degrees: ‘Kipling Hunt’s Flying Circus’, Art Pavillion, London, UK
2018/19 ‘Point blank’, Luton and DOH, London UK
2013 Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2013/14 ‘Murder & Mayhem’, Herefordshire
2013 H-Art, Bredwardine, Herefordshire
2013 Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath
2012 ‘Snap’, curated by Althea Greenan, Dr. Lara Perry and Sarah Sparkes, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2012 ‘Parrot Fashion’, Grosvenor Street Squat, London, UK
2011 DOH, London, UK
2010 SWLA, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2009 ‘The Guru’ – performance piece with Terry Burgess. Part of Antony Gormley’s ‘One & Other, Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK
2009 SWLA, London, UK
2009 CPA, Lambeth Open, London, UK
2009 ‘Hidden Gems’ , East End Arts Club, London, UK
2008 Blythe Hill Festival – Kite flight – London, UK
2007 Signals 5, Crystal Palace Artists, featuring ‘The Day of Intimacy; A series of Intimate Interventions’, London UK
2006 Signals 4, Crystal Palace Artists, London, UK
Independent Projects and advisory committee
2024 Renovation of tiger installation, Babur, London, UK
2017 Indian installation, Babur, London, UK
2016 Firearms shoot, Broek-in-Waterland, Holland
2013 Residency, Great Brampton House, Herefordshire
2009 Ceramic installation, permanent collection, Babur, London, UK
2007 Renovation of tiger installation, Babur, London, UK
2003 – 2023. A member of the viewing, sub-committee in the short & foreign film sectors, for screenings and voting in the annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
Selected Bibliography
2022 5th edition of the KCAW Art Trail by Mark Westall, FAD magazine
2022 Kensington and Chelsea Art Week & Public Art Trail by Bella Banner Evans
2022 KCAW Art Trail by Mayfair Times
2022 KCAW & Kipling Hunt – interviewd by Gary Mansfield, Ep. 177, Ministry of Arts podcast
2020 Radio London – interview with Kipling Hunt about the exhibition ‘The Healing Power of Flowers’
Education
2018 Postgraduate diploma course, The Bigger Picture, Essential School of Painting, London E3 with tutors Bob and Roberta Smith OBE RA, Alison Harper and Johanna Melvin
2006 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture, (2:1) Chelsea College of the Arts, Manresa Rd and Millbank
2003 Foundation in Art, Distinction, Chelsea College of the Art, Bagley’s Lane, London SW6
2002 Painting and Life drawing classes, Putney School of Art, London
2000 Foundation in Fashion, Merit, London College of Fashion, London E2
