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George Dunn
Born in Dublin, George is a European painter. From Irish, Cornish and Breton stock, he can call on a rich tradition of North European angst. Soutine is mentioned when people talk of influences, but the artist himself would consider Egon Schiele or George Renault nearer the truth.
The Human Condition and Observation of it is the artist's domain. Despair, fatigue and the futility of life feature strongly in Georges work.
Perhaps he is summed up best by Gerald Davis, gallery owner, writer and art correspondent: "His work exhibits a mastery of medium that I have only seen previously in the work of the late Jonathan Wade. Allied to a quirky choice of subjects, he gives us a series of idiosyncratic tableaux of enduring fascination. George is above all a committed artist, he paints because he has to and, when we look at his work, we see not a 'sophisticated' distillation of multiplicity of styles of contemporary art, but a direct response to his own struggles with life and his attempt to understand it. It is this deeply felt involvement with the painting and life that makes such work as this an important part of the exciting renaissance in Irish art through which we are privileged to be living."
Exhibitions
1990: One-man show, Duke Street Gallery, Dublin. Royal Hibernian Academy
(RHA) Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
1991: One-man show, Duke Street Gallery, Dublin. Emer Gallery, Belfast.
1992: Apollo Gallery, Dublin. RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin. London
Contemporary Art Fair.
1993: Apollo Gallery, Dublin. RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
1994: Bath Art Fair, UK. Geneva Art Fair, Switzerland. Apollo Gallery, Dublin.
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