Join us for a special closing event to Chimera (H±R-A) by artist Diana Puntar on Saturday 1 November 2025 for guided walking tours at 11am and 2pm.
Book FREE tickets via Eventbrite. Walking tours will begin and finish at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University.
Chimera (H±R-A) Historical Re-Anachronism is an alternative heritage and sculpture trail around Kingston town centre by artist Diana Puntar, co-commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University and the Royal Borough of Kingston for Kingston 2025.
The trail features artworks that explore the transformation of historical objects, such as the Kingston Coronation Stone, into symbols of English heritage, with locations including Kingston University’s Town House Library, Kingston Museum, Frederick W Paine Funeral Museum and All Saints Church. Puntar’s project places new sculptures within existing heritage sites and ongoing community engagement, to question the role of monuments in shaping collective memory and cultural identity.
Pick up a free guide at one of the main trail venues or download it from the Gallery’s website here.
Biography
Diana Puntar is a London based artist originally from New York City. Her cross-disciplinary works include sculpture, installation, drawing, and printmaking. Chimera(H±R-A) forms a new chapter of Puntar’s ongoing project Historical Re-Anachronism, where the artist has explored American national (counter)histories, often using humour as a vehicle to look at colonisation and its continuum, which she feels are reflected in ongoing political and ecological problems.
She has been an artist-in-residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, and Eltham College in Southeast London. She is a member of Cubitt Artists, London, where she previously served as Studio Artist Co-Chair of Public Programmes. In 2023, Puntar had her first solo exhibition in London, Historical Re-Anachronism, Ultima Romanus, at the Gerald Moore Gallery. This exhibition invited viewers to reconsider history by questioning the fluidity of cultural identity and the complex tensions between tradition and progress.
Puntar holds an MFA in SMFA/Tufts University, Boston, and a BA in Sculpture from the University of Maryland, College Park.
