Collective Members
Charlie Hunter
Charlie Hunter is an artist and illustrator, skilled in mixed media, digital, print, and animation. His work has been showcased in publications such as the Sunday Times, GQ, and the BBC. Additionally, he has designed book covers for publishers such as Fourth Estate and Orion.
As a member of the UK LOVED Collective, alongside sound artist and filmmaker Mike Wyeld, Charlie has exhibited work internationally in locations such as Provincetown, Tallinn, Helsinki, Liverpool, Belfast, Stockholm, Toronto, and several London neighborhoods, including Brixton, Shoreditch, and Barbican.
In 2024, Charlie was honored to participate in the Queer Up North artist's residency in Temagami, Ontario, Canada.
In Rock On The Shore, artists Charlie Hunter and Mike Wyeld (known collectively as LOVED) explore identity through the metaphor of geological erosion and iterative decay, considering the Queer art of scavenging as a key technique.
Drawing parallels between the weathered rocks and found items in the ecosystems of Ontario’s expansive lake shores and those of the Thames Estuary, they reflect on the iterative process of personal and collective identity formation—a central experience in queer lives.
LOVED: Heroic stories of passion and acceptance.
Launched in 2015, LOVED is an analogue and digital gallery work by Charlie Hunter and Mike Wyeld.
While myths of beauty and ideas around body shape , fitness, even obesity are hotly debated in mainstream culture, some people have found acceptance in new movements, formed new alliances, and set in motion new ideas, they are “LOVED”.
Rock - Size: 59.4 x 42 cm
Moose skull - Size: 59.4 x 42 cm
Untitiled 82 - Size: 118.9 x 84.1 cm
Untitled 31 - Size: 118.9 x 84.1 cm