Dave Lunt: June 2016

Thursday, 30 June 2016

Exhibition News and New Work again!!

I have a painting (Hypothetical Proto-planet 2) in this years 'PS Mirabel Open Call' show titled 'Spectrum'. The show opens this Friday with details on gallery opening times (and further info) available from the website http://www.psmirabel.co.uk/

I have also completed a new series of small pieces which forms part of my current project exploring (amongst many other subjects) mapping, topography, macro and micro photography etc... which should appear below. All are 21cm x 21cm and are ink on paper. Please message me if you would like any further info.

Saturday, 4 June 2016

Process Exhibition and New Work

I am currently showing in the 'Process' Exhibition by Bankley Studios members, the show has its last day next Saturday (11th June 12-4) so try and get along if you can as its an excellent showcase for the artists currently working out of Bankley.
My new project continues to build and I have finished two new works with which I am really pleased. Map 1 and Map 2, both ink on paper 21cm x 21cm, a number of smaller pieces to go alongside the much larger works.

For further info and sales please email me on davelunt@hotmail.com

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.