Inspired by the tension between materiality and time, Jack Lanagan Dunbar’s work explores history, fantasy, archaeology, classics, romance, humor and tragedy.
His work crosses media, typically incorporating elements of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and photography into his pieces and often imposing them on each other. Copper, steel, wood, paper, and clay make up the bulk of Lanagan Dunbar’s raw materials and it is on and in these materials that he makes his marks, sometimes imposing them himself, sometimes stepping back to let the material speak for itself.
Jack Lanagan Dunbar has shown extensively in Australia and abroad, held positions at the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of Sydney, was the recipient of the 2016 Redlands Art Prize (emerging artist) and the 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
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Inspiré par la tension entre la matérialité et le temps, le travail de Jack Lanagan Dunbar explore l’histoire, la fantaisie, l’archéologie, les classiques, la romance, l’humour et la tragédie.
Son travail traverse les médias, incorporant généralement des éléments de dessin, de peinture, de gravure, de sculpture et de photographie dans ses pièces et les imposant souvent les uns aux autres. Le cuivre, l’acier, le bois, le papier et l’argile constituent l’essentiel des matières premières de Lanagan Dunbar et c’est sur et dans ces matériaux qu’il fait ses marques, parfois en les imposant lui-même, parfois en prenant du recul pour laisser la matière parler d’elle-même.
Jack Lanagan Dunbar a beaucoup exposé en Australie et à l’étranger, a occupé des postes à l’université de technologie de Sydney et à l’université de Sydney, a reçu le prix d’art Redlands 2016 (artiste émergent) et la bourse d’art itinérante Brett Whiteley 2019
Multidisciplinary artist, Jack Lanagan Dunbar was born in 1988 in Australia.
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Artiste multidisciplinaire, Jack Lanagan Dunbar est né en 1988 en Australie.
Selected Solo exhibitions
2022
Melbourne Art Fair, solo booth with COMA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2021
Signal, COMA gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2019
Pantheon, COMA gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2018
Ambient, Alaska, Sydney, Australia.
Spring 1883, presented with Alaska Projects, Melbourne, Australia.
Art Incubator Auction, NAS, Sydney, Australia.
FBI Art Auction, NAS, Sydney, Australia.
2017
After All, Alaska, Sydney, Australia.
Spring 1883, presented with Alaska Projects, Sydney, Australia.
2016
None of Us is as Good as All of Us, Alaska, Sydney, Australia.
Redlands Konica Minotla Art Prize, National Art School, Sydney, Australia.
2014
KK+JLD x Center for Style x Kate MacDonald, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (KK+JLD), Aus. Hurts lots / Well Trodden Fantasies, 55 Sydenham rd, Sydney (KK+JLD), Australia.
2013
Conquest of the Useless (with SuperKaleidoscope), Sydney Guild, Sydney (KK+JLD), Australia.
Mental Handstands, Firstdraft, Sydney, Australia
2011
How to be a Good Witness, collaborator on project for the Prague Quadrennial, Czech Republic. Networks of Surrender, collaborator on project for the Gwangju Design Biennale, Korea.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
The Throat of the Snake, COMA, Sydney, Australia.
1832: A Salon That Never Took Place, galerie l’inlassable, Paris, France.
2020
Somewhere New, Krudebude, Leipzig, Germany.
2018
Real-time Stockroom, Down Under Space, Sydney, Australia.
2017
LOSING FARTHER, LOSING FASTER, Alaska, Sydney, Australia
2016
Another Green World, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Static and Silence, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, Australia.
2015
SPVI II, Turner Gallery, Tokyo
2014
Radiant Future, Firstdraft, Sydney (KK+JLD), Australia.
2013
Mono No Aware, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (KK+JLD), Australia.
Hyper Spectral Display, 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney, Australia.
2012
All About U, The AV Union, Sydney, Australia.
CAN’T MELT CHEESE TWICE, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2009
Parataxis, Serial Space, Sydney, Australia.
27:27:27, MA Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Prizes / Rewards
2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
2019 Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2016 Redlands Konica Minolta Artprize, winner of emerging artist category
2014 ArtStart, Australia Council for the Arts
Residencies
2018 Carriageworks Photographer’s Residency program
2015 Residency at Bundanon Trust (KK+JLD)
2014 Ace House Collective, studio residency + film screenings, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (KK+JLD)