Lindy Dunbar & Joseph Davey
Östersund to Sussex Refigured
18th May-31th May
Lindy Dunbar
To share this online show with my son Joseph is a very special experience. We have exhibited together before and its always interesting to see the link between our work even though our styles are so different.
Based in Sussex, I paint and draw directly from life celebrating the individuality, dynamism, curves and shapes in the moving and motionless human form. I use varied materials such as oil and acrylic paint, ink, charcoal and pastel on canvas or paper. Each medium has a particular excitement and the quality of marks and colour palette is of paramount importance.
Dancers, acrobats and performers are often the basis of my work as they move before me, and its a pleasure to share in their creative process. There is never more than a brief moment of stillness as even when the performers are briefly holding their position, the rope or trapeze still maintains energy and life or the dancers move on. I have to grasp what I see, capturing the serendipity of the fleeting tensions as they emerge and disappear. I strive to give the appearance that the figure has only just arrived and could get up and move away at any moment, even in a longer pose.
Interview by journalist John May
Audio Production by Simon Kunath
Title: Gingerole
Medium: Ink, acrylic & conte
Size: 73x56cm
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Title: Jump
Medium: Ink & conte
Size: 51x40cm
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Title: Carnival One
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 92x122cm
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Lindy Dunbar BA Hons Cert Ed
Selected Exhibitions
2020 John Lewis prints of my paintings since 2009
2020 Visiting life drawing tutor for Eastbourne College since 2013
2020 Life drawing tutor, ongoing
2019 Solo show, GNT Gallery, Eastbourne
2019 Affordable Art Fair. London since 2015
2019 Eastbourne College, Rambert’s annual residency since 2012
2018 Solo show, Birley Centre, Eastbourne
2018 Pelham House, Lewes & 2017
2017 Star Group, Lewes House, Lewes
2016 Glyndebourne
2016 Östersund-Sussex, Hop Gallery,Lewes 2016,2014,2012
2016 Solo show, Birley Centre, Eastbourne
2016 Solo show, Da Vinci Gallery, Eastbourne
2015 Works on Paper Art Fair. Science Museum, London
2015 Hop Gallery, Lewes, group shows since 2008
2015 Art Wave. Lewes, Brighton & Eastbourne since 2006
2014 Nicholas Bowlby Christmas Show. Chelsea
2013 Catharine Miller Gallery. London
2013 Spring Fair Battersea
2012 Artist-in-residence. Crypt Gallery, Seaford,
2010 Dieppe Art Fair
2006 Salon de Refuse Exhibition. Dulwich
2006 Llewelyn Gallery. London & 2005
Qualifications
BA Hons Open University, studying History of Art 2003
Certificate in Education Birmingham University [Art & Music] 1971
Joseph Davey
I am originally from Sussex. I studied fine art painting at Brighton University (1999-2001) and remained in Brighton for a few years after that. I have been continuously painting since then supporting myself with various different jobs along the way. Ten years ago I moved to Östersund in Sweden with my family, which is where I now live, and work.
My painting practice is a contemplation, reflection, expression and documentation of poignant instances within my life.
I work from source material in the studio, almost always photographs that I have taken. This allows me to reflect on the chosen images and the reason for their collection. It also allows the paint itself to become more dominant in the work.
Oil paint is an incredibly enriching vehicle. The vocabulary of marks available is broad, fascinating and constantly inspiring. My love of the medium is always apparent in my work; it is, I believe, what makes me a painter.
My work has to do with finding form. The marks that I make with paint come to establish an arena, which allows more figurative aspects to form themselves.
Influences include: Gerhard Richter, Peter Doig, Billy Childish, Tom Waits, ECM Records, H P Lovecraft, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, Anders Zorn, Mama Andersson and many more.
Interview by journalist John May
Audio Production by Simon Kunath
Joseph Davey BA Hons Fine art painting
Represented by
Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm, Sweden, since 2011
Selected Exhibitions
Things we build, solo show, Stora Krykan, Östersund, 2019
Mitt-Salong, Juried exhibition, Östersund, Sweden, 2019
Group show, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
Solo show, Härnösand Konsthall, Härnösand konstklubb 2018
Solo show, Ahlbergshallen, Östersunds Konstklubb 2018
Östersund to Sussex, group show, Hop Gallery, Lewes, England, November 2016
Group show, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
Solo show, Järpen Kulturhuset, Åre Konstförening 2016
Solo show, Sjögatan sju, Sundvalls Konstförening 2015
Group show EDS Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015
Östersund to Sussex – Hop Gallery, Lewes, England, November 2014
Solo show, Lars Bolin Gallery, Östersund, Sweden, 2014
Vårsamling, Galleri Remi, Östersund, Sweden 2014
Östersund to Sussex and back again, group show, Hop Gallery, Lewes, England, 2012
Group show, Galleri Bolin, Östersund, Sweden 2011
Östersund to Sussex, group show, Hop Gallery, Lewes, England, 2010
Selected Publications
“Reflections Vs Perceptions” with Benjamin Hylands 2016
Collections
Östersunds kommun
Härnösand kommun
Reg. Västernorrland
Lars Bolin Gallery
Education
BA Hons fine art painting, Brighton University, 1999 - 2002.
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