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Biography - Cain and Todd Hunter The Hunter Brothers were found as children standing beside the burnt out shell of their family homestead somewhere in western Queensland. The fire had killed their parents and all records of their immediate family. Summarily they were informally adopted into the extended family of the group of itinerant rural workers that had discovered them and for the next twenty years they learnt on the roads and byways of central Australia. They developed their love of art and their familiarity with art history at the knee of the family’s matriarch who was even then believed to be over a hundred years old. She had modelled for both Degas and Picasso in Paris before she brought the family to Australia and, of a night, she put them to bed with tales of the birth of modernism and Bohemian Europe. Creativity and individual expression were actively encouraged and valued by Cain and Todd’s adopted family and they quickly found mentors for their nascent creative abilities. Their early experience has imbued the Hunters with a strong outsider perspective and a preference for the broad open expanses of the Australian interior rather than complexities of bourgeois society. Their extensive investments in the silver industry enable them to maintain a reclusive existence. They therefore totally shun all contact with society and work exclusively through the agency of their representative, Gerald Soworka. |
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by the hunter bros. represented in australia by gerald soworka |
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descartes error - the philosophy of flesh |
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‘Soiled soul sold cheap’ 150 x 85cms Charcoal, pastel and gouache on canvas wallpaper |
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In the tradition of Gilbert and George, Laurel and Hardy, the Chapman Brothers, Martin and Lewis, Tom and Gerry, etc, Cain and Todd Hunter always work collaboratively. They share similar interests artistically, but often contradictory approaches temperamentally. A life time of shared experiences has given them an almost telepathic understanding that permeates and intuitively guides their work. This is their first major exhibition in a number of years. Having retired from public life they work exclusively through their representative and manager Gerald Soworka, who is a fictitious construct of their combined imaginations. |
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