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The Art Hunter is David Hunt and he is our main author, interviewer and lover of the arts. Pete Holmes helped David create The Art Hunter website and maintains it for David.

David Hunt

David Hunt is The Art Hunter and is dedicated to interviews with artists of various disciplines - from visual arts to theatre; from writers to actors; from gallery curators to dancers. His aim is to showcase all aspects of the arts, with up close and personal in-depth conversations. David Hunt’s love for the arts and his friendship with so many artists as a presenter/producer of a weekly arts program on JOY 94.9 - Sunday Arts Magazine, which has been running for over six years. David is always on the “Hunt” for new & emerging artists. He is very grateful that he has been given this opportunity to support the arts. David’s background over the past 30 years, was with international & local record companies, in senior management roles - publicity, promotions, marketing. With EMI, Virgin, BMG & MDS (an offshoot of Mushroom), plus his own PR/Marketing company. Looking after some of the biggest international & local names in the industry.

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Pete Holmes

Pete Holmes is also a presenter on JOY 94.9, a website designer and also a lover of the arts. He is the designer of The Art Hunter website and helps David maintain the site and The Art Hunter YouTube Channel.

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An “arty farty” show about the thriving arts scene in Melbourne and beyond. The program covers all styles of art, including film, performance and visual arts.

Travis Alabanza’s international breakout hit Burgerz will take the stage at Theatre Works this
February, as part of Midsumma Festival. Helmed by the Green Room Award winning team behind
“The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven”, this Australasian premiere will be the first

international production to feature a new performer in the lead role; Melbourne’s most exciting up-
and-coming trans artist Kikki Temple.

Funny, confronting, flirtatious and sometimes a bit messy, Burgerz combines confessional
storytelling, live cooking, and audience interaction to recreate a trans person of colour’s lived
experience. Poignantly unpredictable, Burgerz lifts the lid off gender and race politics by asking us to
reflect on our own complicity. To be unregulated is to be dangerous.
In broad daylight in April 2016 at Flinders Street Station, a burger was thrown at Kikki whilst someone
shouted a transphobic slur. Over one hundred people saw, and no one did anything. To understand
this act of violence, Kikki needs to make a burger – with the help of a stranger. Burgerz is the climax
of their obsession —exploring how trans bodies survive in public spaces and how they can reclaim an
act of violence.
“I remember feeling like this was a story I needed to tell. Like the words have been on my lips the whole
time but I just didn’t know how to get them out. When I read what Travis had written, I felt a sense of
relief knowing someone had articulated what I had been trying to say the whole time.” -Kikki Temple
Carving out a place as one of the UK’s prominent trans voices, Alabanza is an award-winning theatre
maker and trans activist who has opened arena shows for Jonathan van Ness and Alok Vaid-Menon.
Burgerz has played internationally in Sao Paulo, Southbank Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Smock Alley
Dublin, HAU Berlin, and Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won the Total Theatre award.