A show which explores the relationship between the artist and urban space.
Bomb exhibits a variety of paintings created in oil, spray-paint and oil pastel originating as investigations into the built environment; this series has taken a peculiar format for what are fundamentally landscapes. Taking influence from the text SI International – (“Certain Shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse certain original conceptions of space” ) Neil Dunne has reimagined and explored the topographical locations of his native Dublin.
These works are in flux between abstraction and a recognisable visual language – a common thread exercised through form and structure has emerged, an incoherent critique of culture and modern society are at the epicenter of this series upon which the audience can engage and play with.
A vivid, rhythmic approach to painting has emerged from Bomb, encapsulating a range of studies over the past year, he has offered an eclectic insight into the radical possibilities paint has to offer. Here we find Dunne’s work appearing as a fragmented set of compositions radically opposing any sense of formality, each piece evolves and grows as the artist does.
Dunne’s work has developed a distinct language through his instinctive and gestural mark-making, deriving from his deep interest in urban culture and background in printmaking. Runs September 9-26
