Dave Lunt: New Work and Exhibition News November 2017

Thursday, 16 November 2017

New Work and Exhibition News November 2017

So as we reach the end of another year I've been pretty busy. New work is always on the march and I've just completed a large 'Matrix' drawing (pictures to follow later) as well as a number of new paintings, smaller drawn works and some more animations. Below should be some stills from an animation called ' Drowned World (abandoned 'Facility') which I have been working on and trying to get right for some time, I'm nearly there!!! Again this uses my map drawings as tools for all the scenery and textures in particular 'Jetsam' and an older piece, which is becoming a recurring feature, 'The Islands of Reil' .
I have also been invited to show a painting with 'Lumen Gallery',a London based gallery collective who explore themes relating to 'Astronomy' and 'Light' in their forthcoming show at Bankley Studios. for more info on the show and about the work of 'Lumen' please see:
https://www.lumenstudios.co.uk/
https://www.lumenstudios.co.uk/future-events/g6hgs6x23x67z7stegpy8nb78dkpck

Info relating to the Preview should be on there but please message me if you need anything further.

The Painting I am showing is 'Hypothetical Proto Planet 3 (near miss)' and is another entry in my ongoing project 'Existence is doubted'.

Hypothetical Proto Planet 3 (Near miss), Oil and Enamel on Glass 2017

The Islands of Reil, Pencil and Ink on Paper 2014

Drowned World (abandoned facility) take 2, Blender animation still 2017

The Islands of Reil (Drowned World) Digital Image 2017

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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.