Commissioned as part of Navigating History a collaboration between Proboscis and Deborah Smith with East Sussex Record Office in Lewes, Folkestone Library & Museum, West Sussex Local Studies Collection in Worthing Library. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council England, Creative Partnerships Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent County Councils.

Andrew Hunter wishes to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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  Andrew Hunter has produced exhibitions, publications and writings for public museums across Canada in the United States and England. He has become widely known for his innovative use of collections, his explorations of history and his commitment to creating projects that are playful, engaging and accessible to broad audiences.

Both an artist and independent curator, Hunter’s collection-based narrative projects include Up North: A Northern Ontario Tragedy (Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, McMaster Museum of Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery, 1997-98), Convergence (Winnipeg Art Gallery/Art Gallery of Peel, 1998), Ding Ho/Group of Seven (with Gu Xiong, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and Mendel Art Gallery, 2000-2001), Billy’s Vision (Mendel Art Gallery, Dunlop Art Gallery, Walter Phillips Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, 2000-2002), Stand By Your Man (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, 2001-2002), In the Pines (Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 2001), The Donnelly Project (Museum London and Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, 2002-2003), Peake’s Folly (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2003), Giddy Up! (Walter Phillips Gallery, 2004) and Hanksville (Mendel Art Gallery, 2004). Hunter has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and his major historical projects include Lawren Harris: A Painter’s Progress (Americas Society Art Gallery, New York), Tom Thomson (Art Gallery of Ontario and National Gallery of Canada, with Charles Hill and Dennis Reid), Come A Singing! (Edmonton Art Gallery, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2003-2004), The Other Landscape (Edmonton Art Gallery and McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2003-2004) and To a Watery Grave (Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, 2004).

Hunter has held curatorial positions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Kamloops Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery and has been Adjunct Curator with the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. He has published numerous essays on his own practice including the recently published Speaking of Billy in The Edge of Everything: Reflections on Curatorial Practice (The Banff Centre Press, 2002).

His book Cul-De-Sac has just been published by the University of Lethbridge. Hunter lives in Dundas, Ontario, Canada.