The Hunt
The Hunt are a multidisciplinary group of artists who use sound, performance and imagery to create performance vignettes centered around a female protagonist that draw on horror tropes in film, fashion and literature. The Hunt use everyday, mundane materials to reveal the everpresent potential for horror in our domestic and daily lives.
The core artists in the group are: Christopher Gray (music), Bridget Mackey (performance) and Grace Purton-Long (design). They create work based on their individual experiences in the music, theatre and design worlds. Since forming in 2016, The Hunt have presented work at private parties, music venues, site specific locations, and in galleries around Melbourne. The Hunt’s performance Woman in Car won the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2017 Liveworks Experimental Art Award, supported by Performance Space. Their digital story Quarry: A Story About Grief was shortlisted for the 2020 Heathcote digital-art prize.
“I just watched The Hunt’s artwork Quarry: A Story About Grief. I thought it was extraordinarily beautiful, atmospheric and tough. I loved the way it all worked together. The text felt like you’d dredged the weird dynamite holes in the quarry and found something true and flinty and heavy." — Mark Rogers, Playwright.
1-3 Epics of Desire photos by Dylan Martorell.
4-6 Night Visions photos by Kurt Eckardt.
7-9 Woman in Car at Testing Grounds images by Lewis Attey.
10-12 Camptrip at the Quarry photos by Arie Rain Glorie.
13-15 Trocadero Art Space photos by Peter Dowd.
16 Quarry: A Story about Grief image by Grace Purton Long.
17 Woman in Car soundtrack by Christopher Gray.