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time, by showing three portraits. She was to exhibit with their successor organisation, the Royal Ulster
Academy of Arts throughout her life, and missed only three annual exhibitions in the thirty years between 1950 and 1980. Hunter served as President of the RUA from 1976-1977, having previously been honoured by her appointment as Associate of the RUA in 1948 and as an Academician in 1967. She was bestowed with an MBE in 1970 for her services to art and education.
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In the spring of 1944 Hunter showed portraits in pencil and watercolour, as well as some landscapes, alongside her brother at
Pollock's Gallery in Belfast. Hunter also began a life-long relationship with the Ulster Academy of Arts in 1944 when she participated in their annual exhibition for the first
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in 1975 at the same time as her long-term collaborator
Patricia Mulholland. The wife of the Northern Irish Secretary of State Colleen Rees was the curator of a personal selection of works from Ulster Artists hosted at the Leeds Playhouse Gallery in 1976. Hunter's work was among 49 works from various
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Hunter was amongst the founding members, and a past president of the Ulster
Society of Women Artists, and exhibited frequently with the Ulster Watercolour Society. Owing to her numerous lectures and broadcasts, Hunter was a well known figure to the Northern Irish public. After her retirement Hunter
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Mercy Hunter was born in
Belfast on 22 January 1910, one of five children of William Hunter, a Presbyterian minister, and his Russian-born wife Alice Beyer. Hunter was christened Martha Saie Kathleen, but was always known as Mercy. Her parents served as missionaries in China, with Hunter travelling
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in an exhibition of diverse landscape paintings at the Arts
Council Of Northern Ireland Gallery. Hunter donated a picture to an exhibition to raise funds for victims of civil disturbances in Belfast in the autumn of 1969. The exhibition at Queen's University was organised by
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unveiled a plaque to Hunter on 3 November 2010, at her former address of 23 Botanic Avenue, Belfast, where she had lived for many years from 1949 until forced to move when a car-bomb destroyed the premises in
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Irish ballet company. Hunter designed all the costumes for the Grand Opera
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