Artist Biography 2025

Adrienne is a multidisciplinary artist with a primary interest in photomedia.  Her ecologically-engaged practice focusses on the relationships between reality and human perspectives of reality – drawing attention to anthropocentric attitudes to the aesthetics of the natural environment, to ecological profiteering, and to the delusional belief in distinctions between the human and natural world. Her aims are to encourage environmental respect and restoration, and optimism for the future. She is an active member of the Tree Veneration Society of eco artists. 

Exhibitions

2022 – Bird Parade with Tree Veneration Society members for Jungle Jam – Bankstown Arts Centre.
2022 – Performer with Tree Veneration Society members and Dirt Witches – Eucalyptusdom event at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
2022 – Finalist with Graham Wackett – North Sydney Art Prize 2022.
2022 – Tree Veneration Society show Arboreal Narratives 2022 – Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney.
2021 – Finalist – Blacktown City Art Prize 2021.
2021 – Performer with Tree Veneration Society members – Requiem event of the Festival of Sydney.
2020 – Tree Veneration Society show Arboreal Narratives 2020 – Sheffer Gallery, Sydney.
2019 – Group show – Hovinkartano International Arts and Cultural Centre, Finland.
2018 – Honours Graduate show of Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney.

Art Education

2018 – Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours, Class 1), The University of Sydney. 
2012 – Diploma of Fine Arts, Sydney Gallery School, Meadowbank TAFE, NSW.  

Other Qualifications

Grad Dip Physiotherapy (Guy’s Hospital, London); Postgrad Dip Paediatric Physiotherapy (University of Sydney); Master of Biomedical Engineering (UNSW); PhD (University of Sydney). 

Exhibitions

2025 – Artists of Mosman – exhibition of selected works, Mosman Art Gallery. 
2024 – Sacred Grove in your Street, Tree Veneration Society exhibition, The Concourse, Willoughby. 
2024 – North Sydney Art Prize – Finalist with Jan Garben and Graham Wackett. 
2023 – Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize – Manly Art Gallery & Museum. Finalist. 
2023 – Botanica de Materia Medica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.  
2023 –  Arboreal Narratives 2023, The Tree Veneration Society exhibition, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf. 
2023 – Artists of Mosman – exhibition of selected works, Mosman Art Gallery. 
2023  – Save Oxford Falls – Creative Library, Manly. Group exhibition. 
2022 – North Sydney Art Prize – Finalist with Graham Wackett. 
2022 – Eucalyptusdom – Powerhouse Museum. Performer with Janet Laurence’s Dirt Witches. 
2022 – Arboreal Narratives 2022Beyond Human – Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney, Tree Veneration Society group exhibition. 
2021 – Blacktown City Art Prize – Finalist. 

Curation

2023 – Arboreal Narratives 2023 – in conversation, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, with Jan Garben – a group exhibition of the Tree Veneration Society and invited artists.  

Writing

Catalogue Essay: 2020 The Year of the Unprecedented, 2020.
https://treevenerationsociety.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=6318&action=edit

After Nature: Aesthetics of Care in a Time of Loss, April 2019.
https://sei.sydney.edu.au/opinion/nature-aesthetics-care-time-loss/

Political Change, Not Climate Change: How Australians Can Overcome Climate Denial, March 2019.
https://sei.sydney.edu.au/opinion/political-change-not-climate-change-australians-can-overcome-climate-denial/

Visual artists as ecological change agents, March 2018.
https://sei.sydney.edu.au/opinion/visual-artists-ecological-change-agents/

Media

Webwww.adriennehuntsydney.com
Insta@adrienne_hunt_sydney