Ewan Hunter is an artist, designer and performer working internationally in outdoor spectacles, theatre and contemporary sculpture.
A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, he co-founded Scott Associates Sculpture and Design with Andy Scott, Simon Hopkins and Patrick Moran and although now living in a different continent is still strongly connected with the company.
Whilst undertaking hundreds of projects with the Scott Associates in fine art fabrication, theatre, opera and television design, Ewan has worked individually with many other production companies and theatre groups. In 1999 he joined the cast of the cult West-End and Off-Broadway hit "Shockheaded Peter", touring internationally over seven years. When the National Theatre of Scotland was established in 2006 he was a first pick in the company of their opening main stage production "The Wolves in the Walls", co-directed with Improbable and NTS artistic director Vicky Featherstone and designed by Julian Crouch. As a specialist maker he developed props for "The Black Watch" and was the creator and performer of "animitronic puppetry of the most chilling post-human kind" in Vanishing Point's"Little Otik".
Ewan started his career as a designer and maker for outdoor events, spectacles and pyrotechnics, maintaining long associations with UZ events and Mischief La Bas in Glasgow and as a key member of the Lantern Company.
Decamping to a base in Berlin, Germany in 2009, he found the time and space to pursue his personal studio work and then in an exciting intercontinental shift,
became resident in the USA, instantly taking a puppeteering role in John La Bouchardiere's excellently received 2014 production of John Adams' "El Niño" at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston followed in 2016 by an ensemble role in Improbable's realisation of Helmut Lachenmann's extraordinary masterwork "The Little Match Girl"
2017 began with the triumphant presentation of the centrepiece lantern procession at the opening ceremony of the European Cultural Capital in Aarhus, Denmark. Ewan designed and engineered the flotilla of 12m long, illuminated Viking ships and sculpted much of their precious cargo with "lantern-making royalty", Liverpool's Lantern Company.
The same team began 2018 with a special commission for "Lumiere 2018", in Leicester Square and Chinatown in London, England and 2019 saw the commencement of the massive "Wandering Stars" project for the Melbourne Festival in Austrailia.
Recently, with international travel being so much more challenging, he has turned his attention to creating smaller studio-based work in his hometown of Aiken, South Carolina rebranding his specialist ironwork and sculpture as "huntergatherer".
A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, he co-founded Scott Associates Sculpture and Design with Andy Scott, Simon Hopkins and Patrick Moran and although now living in a different continent is still strongly connected with the company.
Whilst undertaking hundreds of projects with the Scott Associates in fine art fabrication, theatre, opera and television design, Ewan has worked individually with many other production companies and theatre groups. In 1999 he joined the cast of the cult West-End and Off-Broadway hit "Shockheaded Peter", touring internationally over seven years. When the National Theatre of Scotland was established in 2006 he was a first pick in the company of their opening main stage production "The Wolves in the Walls", co-directed with Improbable and NTS artistic director Vicky Featherstone and designed by Julian Crouch. As a specialist maker he developed props for "The Black Watch" and was the creator and performer of "animitronic puppetry of the most chilling post-human kind" in Vanishing Point's"Little Otik".
Ewan started his career as a designer and maker for outdoor events, spectacles and pyrotechnics, maintaining long associations with UZ events and Mischief La Bas in Glasgow and as a key member of the Lantern Company.
Decamping to a base in Berlin, Germany in 2009, he found the time and space to pursue his personal studio work and then in an exciting intercontinental shift,
became resident in the USA, instantly taking a puppeteering role in John La Bouchardiere's excellently received 2014 production of John Adams' "El Niño" at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston followed in 2016 by an ensemble role in Improbable's realisation of Helmut Lachenmann's extraordinary masterwork "The Little Match Girl"
2017 began with the triumphant presentation of the centrepiece lantern procession at the opening ceremony of the European Cultural Capital in Aarhus, Denmark. Ewan designed and engineered the flotilla of 12m long, illuminated Viking ships and sculpted much of their precious cargo with "lantern-making royalty", Liverpool's Lantern Company.
The same team began 2018 with a special commission for "Lumiere 2018", in Leicester Square and Chinatown in London, England and 2019 saw the commencement of the massive "Wandering Stars" project for the Melbourne Festival in Austrailia.
Recently, with international travel being so much more challenging, he has turned his attention to creating smaller studio-based work in his hometown of Aiken, South Carolina rebranding his specialist ironwork and sculpture as "huntergatherer".