About.... Several seas away, some words were recently written about Alana Hunt and her bare feet slapping across the mud as she collected other peoples' damaged paintings in a washed away town. Wandering home, past the light of a soft fire, unable to disturb an old septuagenarian couple making love, damp beds smelling sour, a seemingly unmindful Alana searches for salt to put in the cups of nun chai from Kashmir that she holds tenderly in her hands. Alana's practice defies singular definition. Characterised by a gentle though challenging approach to participatory practice her work is best understood as a catalyst of culturally charged encounters that materialise through the local environments and social relationships she inhabits. Much of her recent work has emerged from the occupied region of Kashmir. From 2008-2010 Alana was based in New Delhi. She currently works for Warmun Art in the remote East Kimberley region of Western Australia and was recently awarded the 2011 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship. Her work has taken place across Australia, Asia and Europe. News....
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