Rob Hunter(I)
- Art Department
Robert Hunter is a former property master in film and television
production. Born and raised in Scotland he trained at the Royal
Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and worked at Dundee Repertory
Theatre followed by several years as a stage technician in London's
West End.
Moving to Bristol, he continued freelance scenery work in theatre and television, while studying at Bristol Polytechnic where he subsequently taught undergraduates in media and cultural studies. Hunter also wrote stage and television plays, a film script produced by London film school post-graduates, and wrote and presented academic and trade union commissioned video documentaries. He resumed freelance work with the independent broadcaster HTV, then the BBC, covering studio scenic servicing, film construction and Outside Broadcast rigging, work typically including productions like ITV's Robin Of Sherwood and the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.
In the Nineties, more of Hunter's work came from London-based production companies and centred on the roles of dressing and standby props and props master in productions such as The Rector's Wife, Karaoke, The Young Poisoner's Handbook. He returned to Bristol in the middle of the decade for three series of the BBC's Casualty, followed by Cider With Rosie and the ITV series Wonderful You.
Hunter left the film and television industry at the end of the decade, an action which did provide him with the opportunity to take up music practice on a regular basis and to resume his academic interests. He plays clarinet and saxophones in local Bristol orchestras, sings in two choirs, and revisits occasionally his earlier guitar-playing and song-writing habits. An independent scholar with no institutional affiliation, Hunter's main research interests are political utopianism and cultural theory, and he has recently published work on Kurt Weill in line with his developing focus on music and utopia.
Moving to Bristol, he continued freelance scenery work in theatre and television, while studying at Bristol Polytechnic where he subsequently taught undergraduates in media and cultural studies. Hunter also wrote stage and television plays, a film script produced by London film school post-graduates, and wrote and presented academic and trade union commissioned video documentaries. He resumed freelance work with the independent broadcaster HTV, then the BBC, covering studio scenic servicing, film construction and Outside Broadcast rigging, work typically including productions like ITV's Robin Of Sherwood and the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.
In the Nineties, more of Hunter's work came from London-based production companies and centred on the roles of dressing and standby props and props master in productions such as The Rector's Wife, Karaoke, The Young Poisoner's Handbook. He returned to Bristol in the middle of the decade for three series of the BBC's Casualty, followed by Cider With Rosie and the ITV series Wonderful You.
Hunter left the film and television industry at the end of the decade, an action which did provide him with the opportunity to take up music practice on a regular basis and to resume his academic interests. He plays clarinet and saxophones in local Bristol orchestras, sings in two choirs, and revisits occasionally his earlier guitar-playing and song-writing habits. An independent scholar with no institutional affiliation, Hunter's main research interests are political utopianism and cultural theory, and he has recently published work on Kurt Weill in line with his developing focus on music and utopia.