Its been a while.....

 Apologies to one and all and a belated 'Happy New Year' for both 2021 and 2022. After a relatively quiet 12 months due to the constant ups and downs that 'Covid' has brought with it and only a few online shows (good ones though!! Tebbs Contemporary 'Art and Science' in January and 3 counties open held in conjunction with Keele University in July)to write home about ,I thought id kick off 2022 with a triple header of exhibitions!!!! Opening this Saturday (8th Jan) at https://www.fronteer.co.uk/fronteer-gallery is the 'Celestial Bodies exhibition in Sheffield, followed by the week after (13th Jan) a number of my works being  included in the next selling exhibition cycle at https://www.thegallerynextdoor.co.uk/ in West Didsbury, Manchester. Towards the end of January I have also had a piece selected for the 'Manchester Open' taking place at 'Home' https://homemcr.org/exhibition/manchester-open-exhibition-2022/ ...needless to say I am very excited about all 3 shows and can't think of a better way to start the new year. Fingers crossed I can carry on in this whirlwind fashion and I am hoping for a few more imminent announcements to follow . Please follow the links for more information on how to visit these venues (and please do as there will be loads of fantastic artists showing in all 3 events) and below should be some (as per usual) average photographs of some of my works on display. Until the next update which will hopefully be sooner than 18 months take care and best wishes for the forthcoming 12 months. For more recent examples of my ongoing works head over to my instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/davidlunt3211/

Bowery 2020

 To accompany my 2D work on display at 'Bowery' I have uploaded a number of new animated works to my Youtube channel. These will be up for the duration of the show and can be viewed here

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9xZ1xplqIsaJObwZUNaqyg

Solo and group show exhibition news Autumn 2020

 Well it seems like an age since I last posted (which of course it is) and probably too much has gone on for everybody to list things that I have been up to in that time. So I will stick to the here and now. During lockdown I have been working on a set of drawings titled 'Thousand Year Storm'  so far 6 parts, these are ambiguous black and white pieces based upon some of my archived macro photographs but selected to hint at the swirling gases and elements that make up a gas giant planet. Part one of this series is currently on display in the Warrington 'Open Art Festival' taking place at the Warrington Museum and Gallery https://wmag.culturewarrington.org/  but those who cant make it here is an image of said work...

Part two of the series will be showing in 'Paper Festival' towards the end of the year taking place (fingers crossed) across venues in Manchester, more of that to follow at a later time.

I have also been asked to show a large selection of works in my first solo exhibition for quite a while at 'Bowery' in Leeds. This is set to open next week (31/10/2020) and I am very much looking forward to it, updates on how its going will appear on my Instagram page (@davidlunt3211) and more info about the 'Bowery' can be found here http://www.thebowery.org/ I will be showing over 20 pieces taken from my ongoing project from the last 5 years and I havn't really had the chance to see them together before, I will post photos when the work is up. Anyway so long everyone and take care in these strange times.

The Universe is Expanding!!!

Apologies for a neglect of 'Blogspot' duties but I have been busy over the last year. I have exhibited in a number of shows and have been rapidly putting together a full body of work for a potential solo show towards the end of the year/ early 2020. For updates on work I regularly post on my axisweb page,

 https://www.axisweb.org/p/davelunt/ 

as well as on Instagram,

https://www.instagram.com/davidlunt3211/

Exhibitions have been coming thick and fast and as well as having work in the recent 'Hang Up' exhibition at 'Bankley Studios Gallery' for 'Manifest', I am showing 3 works with 'Lumen' at Nuffield Hospital in Oxford and 1/2 works have just been confirmed for a 'Moon Landing 50' celebration show at Illkely Manor in Yorkshire. All works are my recent exo-planet and exo-moon miniatures.
Hopefully more will follow!!
I should also be showcasing one of my animations at 'University of Mary Washington' in Fredericksburg, USA (http://www.umwmediawall.com/about/) as part of their Autumn programme which I am very much looking forward to. In the meantime here is a recent drawing from my ongoing project 'Existence is Doubted' and a recent animation named 'Quadrillion' of which I am really pleased....

Gas Giant 1 2019 Ink and Pencil on Paper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4y31FjuhKw

For any further info please drop me a line!!

'Approach' Blender Animation July 2018

 

A new animation just completed using my paintings and drawings as object textures.

New Work April 2018

I have finally completed my drawing 'New Tethyzonia Plots 1-35', a piece I have been working on for about 6 months and is part of my ongoing cycle, pictured is the final two drawings plots 34 and 35.

 

I have also started a new 'Blender' animation using my painting 'Hypothetical (exo)planet 4' as a texture, this is just the first part of a much longer animation which I hope to show in its full scope by the end of the year.







Planet Hopper 2018 Blender Animation

New piece following on from 'Interstellar 2', the audio track is from the NASA archives and to my understanding is the sounds emitted by the planet Saturn when sound waves were bounced off it (there is a complete 'sounds of space' mp3 on  archive.org and also snippets directly downloadable from the NASA website), I have changed the pitch for the animation but apart from that its the same. An amazing naturally weird piece of music to accompany my short!! Once again my drawings and photographs are being used as textures for the planet(s) and structures and is taken from the viewpoint of a drone/probe searching for... well whatever drones/probes may be searching for...

New Animation February 2018

I have finally finished my new animation titled 'Interstellar Flyby 2' pretty pleased with this one!!

End of Year, New Work

Well its been quite an exciting year and I've been pretty busy all in all. I'm working towards a solo  show in 2018 to showcase my current 'Existence is Doubted' project. I've also applied for a few opportunities so fingers crossed on that front.
Finally finished a new animation titled 'Interstellar Fly-by' again this uses my own drawings as textures, with the whole piece being inspired by the 'Voyager' space probes. The music/audio is Blind Willie Johnsons 'Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground' a stunningly atmospheric piece which is one of the 31 audio tracks chosen for the gold records stored on the 'Voyager' probes launched in 1977. Voyager has now left the influence of our solar system and is in Interstellar space, but at least its got a great mix-tape to keep it company. I think it fits perfectly. I have also been working on a large scale piece (titled New Tethyzonia) of over 20 different drawings which fit together to make a cartographic- like landscape, the idea being that each tile is a different plot. Ideally I would like to make an animation using the whole drawing to be shown beside it when complete, but we will have to wait and see how it goes. I've finished 12 only 10+ to go. Some examples should be below. Happy New Year to all and see you in 2018.

 

New Tethyzonia (plot1) Ink on Paper 20cm x 20cm

New Tethyzonia (plot2) Ink on Paper 20cm x 20cm

 

Drowned World View2

After a reshoot with different angles, quickened up a bit  and a rethink with the perspective issues I'm really pleased with this second animation. Take it away...

 



Drowned World (The Abadoned Facility) completed 'Blender' animation November 2017

Here is the final rendering of my recent animation (stills already shown), although its far from perfect, I don't think there's much more I can do on my little laptop, although I may well work back into the landscape to sculpt it in a bit more detail and maybe render a smaller clip from a different angle to sort out the perspective. Still I'm quite pleased with it. So without further a do...'DrownedWorld (The Abandoned Facility) take 3.There is some flashing/flickering imagery at the start.

 





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

New Work October 2017

New Painting 'Hypothetical Proto Planet 3 (near miss)' Oil and Enamel on Glass, Blender Animation 'The Last Light Part 2' using 'The End of the world' by Skeeter Davis (sourced from  archive.org).

 



Animation October 2017 'The Last Light'

 

New 'Blender' animation recently completed. Music 'I don't want to set the world on fire' by The Inkspots (sourced from archive.org).

More new work and October Open Studios

So open studios 2017 at Bankley ( bankley.org.uk/ ) is not far away (6th-8th) and I will be open for the whole of the duration, alongside the artists studios there will be the annual 'Open Call' exhibition open for viewing as well. In my studio I will be working on drawings but will have some paintings, drawings and animations to view sowhy not pop in and say hello.
I have been working on some new animations (which has unfortunately taken longer than expected) which should be available to view below. The first is titled 'Flotsam and Jetsam (computer generated Space, Mass and Time and Charlie Kunz), completed using 'Blender' and the music of Charlie Kunz (a piece used in the film 'Withnail and I'). I wanted to create a piece that complimented my recent 'Flotsam' and 'Jetsam' drawings ( the digital piece in the rocky mass is 'Jetsam'), and embraced a sense of  dystopian isolation meets Tony Hart ".. lets look at your pictures in the gallery." etc.. The other clip is the first animation I completed ( 'Exoplanet' ) which at first seemed a bit of a failure but with time has taken on new value, the audio is from the NASA sound archive and is radio waves bounced off Saturn, fantastically creepy.



Animation - Outpost

 

 

I've just finished a new animation, titled 'Outpost (Flotsam and Jetsam)' again using my recent cartographic drawings as the basis for the rock/structure. It is quite basic and has a lot of improvements that can be made but i'm still pretty pleased.

New Blender Animation 'Deep Space Probe'

 

Another simple animation (using 'Blender') completed using my recent drawings as textures.2017.

Gas Giant,Blender Animation,Summer 2017

 

New Work Summer 2017

I still have work on display at PS Mirabel for their 'Manifest' Open call show (for info on opening and location please see http://www.psmirabel.co.uk/ ), but in the meantime i've been busy working on some new pieces for exhibition in a future solo show/project.
Pictured are two paintings, the first is a continuation of the Perspex pieces (View 6 - The Facility) size A3 and the second titled 'Heatmap' Oil on Panel 50cm x 50cm. Alongside these I have been using my work to develop some basic animations using blender as an animation rendering tool. Now I don't profess to be any great film maker but I'm happy with the results so far. There is audio in mind to be added but as I'm not too sure about legality of using 'sound-bites' I'll leave them out for now.

View 6 (The Facility), Oil and Enamel  on Perspex,A3,2017

Heatmap, Oil on Panel 50cm x 50cm 2016-17

Orbiter, Blender Animation 2017



Manifest 2017

Summer season is upon us and its time for the Manifest Arts Festival 2017
(https://www.manifestartsfestival.com/)  and I will be participating in two shows.
Firstly I have had two works selected for 'PS Mirabel Open Call' event titled 'Small World', all works in the show must measure under 20cm x 20cm. My works are titled 'Flotsam' and 'Jetsam' (pictured below) and continue my recent theme of works based upon macro photography, cartography and geophysics (amongst a number of other subjects).
The show lasts for the whole of the Manifest event and into August, but for more info and show times please see the PS Mirabel website (http://www.psmirabel.co.uk/).
The second event is the 'Bankley Studios' members show, titled 'Echo Chamber'. This is a diversion from the traditional salon format and  members have been asked to consider their time in the studio, the rituals and practices that take place and through a series of questions respond, through written statements and objects from their surroundings. Its been an interesting process coming up with a response and I look forward to see the results at the opening on Thursday 6th July .There is also an open studio day on saturday 8th July from 12-4pm to support this. Again for more info on opening times and location please see the 'Bankley' website and social media (http://www.bankley.org.uk/ ) and hope to see you all there. Cheers.

 

Jetsam, Ink on Paper, mounted on painted cork tile, 20cm x 20cm, 2017