Brit Bunkley
Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand-based artist and videographer. His work includes the construction of large-scale outdoor sculpture and installations as well as the creation of ‘impossible’ moving and still images and architecture designed using 3D modeling, video and image editing programs. In Bunkley’s words, his work ‘explores an oblique sense of paranoid apocalyptic fear tempered with a sense of whimsy and irony’.
Bunkley’s subject matter is shaped by his deep interest in politics, the environment, and social history. In a recent video project, ‘Blood River’ Bunkley explores the history of the region surrounding the Rio Tinto River in Huelva Province, Mexico. In the video, Bunkley records the history of a once-thriving nearby socialist village, El Membrillos Bajo, that stood uphill of the red river. El Membrillos Bajo was razed to the ground by Franco's Nationalist forces in 1937 leaving the area with scant remains and a desolate landscape.
Bunkley’s work has been included in venues such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and the White Box in New York City. Recent screenings include the Channels Festival, Melbourne, the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, and the Sustainability Short Film Competition, at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Gainsborough, NC [awarded 2nd prize]. Bunkley holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York City where he studied with Alice Aycock and Robert Morris and a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He currently lives and works in Whanganui, NZ.
“Blood River”, Brit Bunkley, 2020
“Pillar of Cloud”, Brit Bunkley, 2017
“The Killing Chain”, Brit Bunkley, 2021