Personal and Professional Details:
Name: Anna Collette Hunt
Email: anna.hunt@ntlworld.com
Web: www.annacollettehunt.blogspot.com
Qualifications:
1st Class Honours degree in Decorative Arts
(Nottingham Trent University 2006-2009)
Grants and Awards:
=Shortlisted for UK Young Artists Competition,
Derby 2010
=Grant (for purchase of Kiln),
Craft Pottery Charitable Trust 2010
=Grand Prize Finalist,
Nottingham Castle Annual Open 2010
=The Nottingham Castle Solo Exhibition Prize,
Nottingham Castle Annual Open Exhibition 2010
=Grant (to plan and implement a workshop for adults),
Wirksworth at Orange Box 2009
Shows and Exhibitions
2010
Contemporary Craft Makers Market, The Place Sherwood, Nottingham, November
Presence VIII, Ilkley Manor House, West Yorkshire, November
Christmas Exhibition, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, November
Harley Christmas Market, Rising Stars, Welbeck Estate Workshop, November
Maker Showcase, Foyer Gallery, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales, November
UK Young Artists Exhibition, Shortlisted at Derby 2010, October
Strange, Curated Exhibition at Wirksworth Festival, September
Summer Showcase, Heart Gallery, Hebden Bridge Yorkshire, June
Group Exhibition at Number 568 Gallery, Nottingham, June
The Secret Garden Craft Fair, Nottingham, June
Sherwood Art Week, Nottingham, June
Nottingham Castle Annual Open Exhibition (Nottingham)
Shows and Exhibitions 2009
Katrin Moye's open studio event, Carrington, Nottingham, December
Sherwood Christmas Craft Fair, Nottingham, December
Contemporary Craft Makers Market, The Place Sherwood, December
Porcelaine Paper Clay Workshop, Orange Box Design, Derbyshire, October
Art and Utility Exhibition, West Wales School of the Arts, Carmarthen, September
Designers Market Place, The Loft, Leeds, October
Ornament is Crime? Curated by Richard Slee, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, September
Wirksworth Festival Curated Exhibition, Derbyshire, September
New Designers, Business Design Centre Islington, London, July
Earth and Fire, Rufford Country Park Nottinghamshire, June
All Hands on Dec, Degree Show, Nottingham Trent University, June
Shows and Exhibitions 2008
Mad hatter's tea party installation,
Autumn celebration at Newstead Abbey (Nottinghamshire)
Personal Objectives:
= To achieve excellence in my artistic practice, producing unique, critically engaged and evocative ceramic objects that are admired for their skill and concept.
= To promote and encourage accessibility to ceramics through exhibiting, maintaining a spectrum of prices and leading workshops for all abilities.
= To earn a national and international reputation as a maker.
= To be completely engrossed within the field with specific subject knowledge that I am able to share with others through writing, teaching and exhibiting.
