Dave Lunt: July 2010

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Open Exhibition 2010 Chapel Gallery Ormskirk

I will be showing a piece of work in this years West Lancs. Open at the 'Chapel Gallery' in Ormskirk. The piece is titled 'The Last morning on Earth' and is Oil on Glass. Last year was a great show so hopefully this year will be the same!! who knows maybe I might even win a prize?

for further info please look at http://www.chapelgallery.org.uk/

Sunday, 11 July 2010

New Exhibition September 2010

I have been confirmed to exhibit ( in a solo capacity) at Prestons 'Harris Museum and Art Gallery', in the 'Stairway' contemporary art project space from this September- November. The Harris Museum is a stunning venue and this is something I am very much looking forward to!! roll on September. Here is a link to their website for further details of how to get there, more information on my own show will be posted there (I believe) asap.

http://www.harrismuseum.org.uk/

Artists Statement

My current
practice is centred mainly around painted and drawn formats, alongside
photography, digital composition and occasionally collected imagery from magazines,
websites etc…
The most
recent project I have been working on has focussed primarily on mark-making,
line and gesture. However these pieces have an intentional ambiguous narrative
that hints at (and makes reference to) a number of differing sources and
interests that I find ever fascinating.
From a
young age I have been excited by tales of exploration and old maps, this in
turn has become an adult obsession with sea charts, aerial photography,weather
forecasts and many aspects of geophysical phenomena (in particular theories
relating to the formation of supercontinents) and has grown from a juvenile
love of the ‘fantastic’ nature of such subjects, into a study of the abstract
qualities of cartography ( ideas relating to scale and distortion) and it’s
potential.
Making
reference to literary work by Borges, Baudrillard, Verne and Eco, amongst
others,my artwork is a development of these interests, with the outcome being a
number of hyper-real paintings and drawings, simulated again and again using a number
of different mediums to produce works with a duality that questions both the
idea of the ‘Real’ and the ‘Abstract’.
Starting
with a series of old macro photographs (taken from a long since destroyed
series of gestural abstract expressionist paintings) these images have been
digitally manipulated and worked upon to create compositions with a far more
infinite potential, each work being a direct response to the last. What are
left behind are images that no longer have any origin in the ‘real’ world but
instead exist only through the emergence of their own mythology, a journey
through an undiscovered seemingly dystopian landscapes.