Penelope Hunt’s imagery reveals an exploration of perceptions of time and temporality through photography and video. Her work spans portraiture and landscapes, focusing on people and places known to her, often involving complex durational studies. Her PhD project, Reflections on a Living Ruin focuses on her mother’s abandoned swimming pool, which has been a site of focus for 10 years, as it was slowly reclaimed by the surrounding natural environment.
Hunt lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne, where she is an Artist, Educator and PhD Candidate at Monash University. She has been a sessional lecturer in photography at Deakin University since 2019 and registrar & studio arts worker at Arts Project Australia for 12 years. She completed her Masters at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2014 and won the 2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize. She has completed several international residencies and exhibited in both Australia and internationally.