Stephen Dunne
Nominated by: Mark Titchner
Born: 06/04/1973
Ireland
Lives/works: UK
Statement
Generated through a process of zombified art technique, automatic drawing and pseudo-scientific occult systems. Not so much influences as a series of head on collisions with Austin Osman Spare, Philip Guston, J.G. Ballard, Comte de Lautréamont, Thomas Pynchon, Looney Toons and never ending cycles of violence, these images emerge from the inkblot, the rupture and the fracture.
Hooded, Brutal, Violent, Crystallising, Damaged, Fragile, Eyeball, Savage, Visions, Seething, Crawling, Decaying Matter, Anarchic, Exhausted, Carrion, Symbolism, Iconoclastic, Ritual, Religious Wreckage.
Recent Exhibitions
Solo show, Rise, Berlin, Feb 08, "Lieben Leben", Rise, Berlin Sept 07, "My Penguin", Gallery 39, Aug 07,"Worship the Light / Worship the Dark" solo show, Bartletts Gallery, London Sept 06. "Twelve Days of Christmas", Gallery 39, London, Dec 06. "Deck of Cards", Gallery 39, Jan 06. "Xmas Tree", Gallery 39, Dec 05. "Pub Signs", Gallery 39, July 05. “The Blackbird Loop”, Collected Drawings 2001. M.A, Fine Art Painting, Royal College of Art 2001.
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