[3] Whilst in London she befriended numerous Ulster artists, including William Scott, F. E. McWilliam, Crawford Mitchell, and her future husband, the sculptor George MacCann.
[6] 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 time, by showing three portraits.
[1] In 1965 Hunter joined twelve Ulster artists including Alice Berger Hammerschlag, Basil Blackshaw, Colin Middleton, Romeo Toogood, and Olive Henry in an exhibition of diverse landscape paintings at the Arts Council Of Northern Ireland Gallery.
[11] Hunter received an honorary Master's degree from Queen's University Belfast in 1975 at the same time as her long-term collaborator Patricia Mulholland.
[12] 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.
[2] The Ulster History Circle unveiled a plaque to Hunter on 3 November 2010, at her former address of 23 Botanic Avenue, Belfast,[5] where she had lived for many years from 1949 until forced to move when a car-bomb destroyed the premises in September 1972.