Hunter Dillon is a proud Bunjalung and Worimi Person and artist. Their work is interpretive, abstract and a play on traditional iconography with modern day colours and techniques. Hunter’s body of work centres identity, as a Disabled, Trans and Queer BiPOC person living far from home. With central themes of Displacement, Colonisation and Queerness, their work shows a unique Indigenous Australian perspective.
Worimi by Hunter received this Small Grant to support Far From Home, an immersive art project that centre’s identity, displacement, and the longing for home. This collection of work is a combination of painted canvas and digital art, using a combination of traditional techniques and symbolism alongside modern colours and methods to showcase a new depiction of how Aboriginal art has progressed into today’s world. As a first nations, queer and transgender, disabled artist, Hunter’s work intrinsically reflects the intersectionality’s of their identity, whilst continuously highlighting the effects colonisation and their ever present feeling of being far from home.
Hunter has a residency in early 2024 with Gasworks and an Exhibition of Far From Home for Midsumma.
