Robert Hunter Paintings 1966-1988
Dates:
2 March – 8 April 1989
Curator:
Jenepher Duncan
Opened by:
Mr John Stringer (Senior Curator of the Art Gallery of Western Australia)
Location:
Monash University Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
This was the first-ever retrospective exhibition of the Melbourne-based painter Robert Hunter (1947–2014), featuring thirty-six works that offered audiences a rare opportunity to appreciate the breadth and depth of the artist’s enduring commitment to a singular aesthetic.
The exhibition surveyed the first twenty-two years of Hunter’s enigmatic practice, tracing an evolving dialogue between this key exponent of late modernist abstraction in contemporary Australian art and the successive waves of avant-garde movements—from hard-edge painting through to Minimalism, Post-minimalism and Conceptual art.
Acknowledgements
This exhibition was supported by the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council.
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Image: Photograph from the catalogue showing Robert Hunter with a paper stencil for his installation at the Second Triennale, India, 1971