Brendan Huntley
Huntley is a tactile, process-driven artist, always drawing on a well of intuition…Huntley’s gift is his intuitive wielding of materials to marry content with form; to transform the earthly, primordial medium of clay into something airborne and free. Being present and porous to the radiant joy of nature is a remedy. Materialising this wonder into being is an exercise at the heart of the notion of creation.
Anita Spooner, curator and writer, 2023
Read the 2018 Sky Light Mind exhibition essay by Danae Valenza.
Read the 2023 True to Life exhibition essay by Anita Spooner.
Exhibitions
Brendan Huntley
True to Life
The title for the exhibition ‘True to Life’ is a curious frame – what is immediately striking is the playful rendering and reordering of things. Brendan Huntley’s seventh solo exhibition with Tolarno Galleries channels his distinct visual language to extend three bodies of work: large ‘Cocoon Head’ sculptures, small clay ‘Pinhead’ sculptures, and oil paintings. […]
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