Jeremy Hunt is Director of the AAJ Press (Art & Architecture Journal / Press) – a writer and consultant on art and public space creating publications, conferences, cultural events, web media and films.
Educated at Essex University (1976-79) and Goldsmiths’ College he studied Art History, specialising in twentieth century British Art, in particular the relationship between artists and architects through ‘The Independent Group’ and British Art of the 1950’s.
He writes on art, photography, architecture and heritage for publications including Public Art Review, Evening Standard, Art Quarterly, University of the Arts London Magazine, The Art Newspaper, NADFAS Journal, nouvelle Revue d’esthétique, Building Design, Sculpture Magazine (China), State-of-Art, State/ f22, Hotshoe, Photoicon and arts reviews for www.culturecritic.com.
He has cultural interests in Brasil, Uruguay and Argentina and is involved in art projects at the Bienal del Chaco in Argentina, and regeneration in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
In 2011, with Jonathan Vickery, he wrote the thematic entry on ‘Public art in the twenty-first century‘ for Grove Art Online / Oxford University Press; and ‘Public Art in the new Millennium’ for (Dis)Locations: Exile, Topology, Relocation, a compendium of contemporary public art / space thinking published by the Master of Art & Design for the Public Space, Fine Arts Faculty, University of Porto.
As AAJ Press Films he is creating a series of interviews on art, architecture and public space as an online resource with artists, architects and urban thinkers including Christo, Joseph Kosuth, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Jochen Gerz.
He is editing an Anthology of Art in Fiction – A Pevsner-like compendium of texts giving a literary perspective of art references in novels and the fictional character of the artist as observed by writers in novels, cinema, poetry, theatre and cinema.