Richard Dunn

Richard Dunn’s (*1944) visually seductive and intellectually stimulating work explores questions of the perception and interpretation of art’s social and historical context. Using paradox, metaphor, codification and contrast between minimal form and complexity of meaning he explores forces that shape our experiences, including as settlers in an indigenous world. He invites viewers into a lively exchange that eludes simplistic interpretations.

Dunn’s use of different materials and formal orientations – photography, realistic painting, abstract construction, film montage and digital techniques, installation, light and sound – are used as strategies to interact with and undermine conventional styles of picture-making to reveal something new, relevant to now.