Thomas Hunter

The Meeting of the Waters

Thomas Hunter is an Irish-Belgian visual artist working across photography, video, and time-based media. His practice explores memory, belonging, and the passage of time, often through spaces and states that exist in between. He is intrigued by how representation shapes our understanding of self and place, and how media can both reveal and distort these perceptions. Through his work, Hunter seeks to trace the delicate boundaries between reality and recollection, presence and absence.

While growing up in Belgium, Thomas Hunter encountered his native Ireland from afar through mediated images of the conflict and stories passed down through his family. In CCA Hunter presents a multimedia installation consisting of archival films made by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, UTV news footage from the late 80’s and 90’s and slide projections documenting Hunter’s family archive. Tourist imagery of rural landscapes and news segments capturing the later years of the Troubles interrupt each other simultaneously. Using webcam technology, the movement of the audience within the gallery actively distorts the work in real time, implicating viewers in the (de)construction of collective memory and place. The accompanying slide projector clicks through Hunter’s family archive images of Irish landscapes. They are photographed in the artist’s hands, emphasising the fragile, partial and constructed nature of belonging.

Visit CCA before it closed on the 14th March 2026 to interact with his installation.