Kenny Hunter: Natural Selection

– Longside Gallery

About Kenny Hunter: Natural Selection

Kenny's sculptures have an uncanny ability to make you stop in your tracks

- Claire Lilley, YSP

This stunning exhibition of new and reworked sculpture, film and text by Glasgow-based artist Kenny Hunter was his largest to date. 

Featuring works that recall injection-moulded toys, animated cartoons and fashion, his figures, animals and objects from contemporary life were presented as anti-monuments with a still and seamless clarity. While appearing to be mass-produced, they are painstakingly made using traditional sculptural methods. 

Hunter constantly questions and responds to the world around him, and his remarkable talent enables him to make startling and thought-provoking works.

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