Artists Talk with A. Hunt
Saturday, 10 October 2026
12.30pm
Free Event
Join exhibiting artist A. Hunt in conversation with curator, writer, and researcher Aoife Banks in the Linenhall Gallery for an artist talk where they will discuss their installation and body of work, A Syndicate*.
Please note that the exhibition closes at 2pm on Saturday, 10th October.
Drawing on an artistic inquiry of expansive relational frameworks, A. Hunt’s practice unpacks questions of proximity, attention, and support from both an infrastructural and embodied vantage point. Traversing Sculpture, Installation, and Live Art, this work abstractly rehearses ‘togethering’ beyond Hegemonic (Capitalist and Heteronormative) organizational agendas, both from a researched and lived point of view in the artist’s life.
The visual components use various metalwork techniques including metal casting, and the forging, forming, and cutting of steel. The aluminium pieces, cast from the negative space between the bodies of Hunt’s companions and artistic community, work with principals of orientation, distance, and negotiation in both the visual and live art elements of the show. Regarding the works as interpersonal ‘tools’ both by the manner in which they are displayed and activated in performance, Hunt’s exploration beyond dominant relational models suggests an ‘efforting’ of flickering potentiality, sidestepping any arrival into societal obsessions for clarity and fixedness.
About the artists
A. Hunt is an artist working at the intersection of Sculpture and Live Art, based in Ireland and Finland since 2019. Their work has been shown at Centre for Contemporary Art, Slovenia (2025), Artlink Fort Dunree, Donegal (2025), Copper Leg Artist Residency, Estonia (Public Sculpture Commission, 2025), Guesthouse Project, Cork (2024), Titanik Galeria, Finland (2024), The Vantaa Art Museum, Finland (2021), The Queens Museum, NYC (2018), and Pratt Institute, NYC (2019). They have been awarded grants from The Agility Award (2026), Kordelin Säätiö (2025), Paulon Säätiö (2024), and The Franklin Furnace Fund (2020). Hunt is currently a resident of The Fire Stations Artists’ Studios in Dublin, and graduated with an MFA from KuvaTaide Akatemia in Helsinki (2024).
Aoife Banks
Banks’ curatorial practice is rooted in the exploration of visual, social, and political cultures through a queer, decolonial lens. She is currently the curator and programming coordinator of Luan Gallery. Previously, Banks has curated contemporary visual art exhibitions and managed public engagement programmes for galleries and cultural institutions across Ireland. She holds a joint BA in Fine Art and Visual Culture (2018) and an MA in Visual Culture, Art in the Contemporary World (2020) from the National College of Art and Design.
