Dave Lunt: October 2016

Thursday, 6 October 2016

Autumn 2016 Open Studios

Well Autumn is here again and with it comes the 'Open Studios' at Bankley, it opens on Friday 7th October at the same time as Bankleys 'Open Call' exhibition private view from 6-9pm with all welcome!!
I will be in my studio for the duration so if you fancy popping in for a chat as well as seeing what we all do at Bankley then why not come along and have a look.
More info on the open studios and open call can be found on the website

bankley.org.uk/

I have been working on some new pieces (drawings and paintings) which will be on display (as well as some that I will be working on as they are unfinished!!) but in the mean time I have a quick detail of the large drawing I am 2/3 of the way through...

I was also recently shortlisted for 'The Elbow Room Prize' ( elbow-room.org/ ) and the work that was chosen 'Point' will also be on display in my studio for people to see. Cheers all and hope to see you at some point over the weekend.

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.