In October 2024, multi-disciplinary artist Brendan Huntley joined SAM Communications Officer Mikela Guseli for a conversation exploring Huntley’s diverse creative practice. Known best for his clay and painting practice, the conversation spans from Huntley’s early DIY art exhibitions with his parents to fronting Melbourne-based punk band Eddy Suppression Ring, and how the act of creating has been a constant form of self-discovery and self-expression through the past two decades.
About Brendan Huntley
Brendan Huntley is a prolific artist who works across music, painting and sculpture. His work was recently showcased at SAM in Ceramics in Focus, featuring examples of his practice that playfully reference historic ceramic forms to explore the human psyche and what it means to be human, instilling each of his works with individual sensibilities. Huntley approaches his ceramic practice with a belief that the transformative process of sculpting and firing clay involves a transfer of energy, giving each sculpture its own personality.
Huntley’s work features in national and international collections, including the British Museum in London, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.
Top image supplied by artist. Photo: Jasmine Fisher