" 'A deer on a motorway is a difficult image, it suggests nature's a little bit out of balance' " Published Date: 05 July 2008 EVERY MORNING, KENNY HUNTER gets on his bike and cycles to his studio in Anniesland along the tow path of the Forth & Clyde Canal. It's an in-between place, part post-industrial wasteland, part bucolic riverside, home to swans and kingfishers, abandoned shopping trolleys and underage drinkers. Hunter's sculptures are typically informed by books and films, but the recent work that is the backbone of his forthcoming solo show at Tramway – his first in Scotland for four years – is inspired by this journey along the canal where nature meets th e city. There's a fox sitting on top of a wheelie bin, a cat on an old fridge, a pigeon roosting on top of a discarded television. "Canals are interesting zones...
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