New work in by Stephen Dunne whose work we found during Frieze week at an offbeat little venue showcasing a live archive of artists selected by the cream of the international art world!

We saw a leaflet saying 'discover the work of artists hand-picked by the best of today's art world stars' and thought we better have a look and see!

Shining out over and above everyone else was the work by Stephen Dunne hand picked by Turner prize nominee Mark Titchner - have a look and see what we are getting so excited about.

Stephen takes as his starting point simple doodles, marks or stains and creates absurd and often brutal images from them. By using this strategy he is deliberately attempting to sidesstep traditiional methods of painting and open up the possibillity for new forms to emerge.

In the same way that we automatically look to see familiar shapes in cloud formations, or more famously in the Rorschach inkblots favoured by many psychoanalysts, Stephen seeks to impose his own sense of order on these marks, seeing in them the figures that haunt our dreams and collective consciousness.

Stephen Dunne is in the news again with Francesca Gavin championing him in the Guardian saying

'The dark genius of painter Stephen Dunne adds watercolour alongside splashes of ink and acrylics in his representations of dark internal fantasies. There's nothing frumpy about his imagery of bogeymen, floating eyes and gothic nightmares.'

and it just so happens we have four of these fabulous pieces on site for your delight with more to come!


Born in Dublin 1973
M.A. Fine Art Painting Royal College of Art 1999-2001