Within Nature
Next Exhibition
Eva Breuer Art Dealer
83 Moncur Street Woollahra
Brian Dunlop Lute Concerto 1 Oil on canvas 122 x 152cm
Paintings available for view now
Opening Wednesday 2 April 2008 6-8pm
Exhibition on view from 28 March–17 April 2008
Further information & images:
Eva Breuer or Rob Maconachie
Tel: (02) 9362 0297, Fax (02) 93620318
Mobile: 0418 899 006
Email: art@evabreuerartdealer.com.au
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Tues-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5
and by appointment
Eva Breuer Art Dealer is pleased to announce Brian Dunlop’s much-anticipated exhibition of new paintings and works on paper, Within Nature. Dunlop is widely considered one of Australia’s leading figurative painters. This series of exquisite works presents the parallel strands of Dunlop’s artistic life; delicate interiors and still lifes, for which he is renowned, tranquil Port Fairy landscapes as well as Turkish and Oriental subjects drawn from the artist’s global travels.
Dunlop’s light-filled interiors are celebrated for their technical virtuosity and meditative quiet, often appearing to simulate the slow controlled breath of meditation. Sea Breeze is a tender symphony of light and shadow in which a gauzy crimson drape billows inwards on a soft breeze. The Drift of Summer, follows like a gentle outward breath in which the the same drapes are drawn out into warm daylight.
Dunlop’s landscapes explore local vistas in and around Port Fairy and regional Victoria. Country School echoes the delicacy of Andrew Wyeth, Early Summer (The Grampians) is an idyllic pastoral landscape reminiscent of the golden fields of the Heidelberg artists.
Finding inspiration abroad as well as at home, Dunlop’s Turkish series paintings highlight the beauty of simplicity, the warmth of the place and its people. What More Do I Need captures a casual exchange between two friends in a market.
Dunlop’s beautifully composed meditative paintings continue to claim a unique position in current Australian art. He was awarded the Sulman Prize in 1980, and his work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and all state galleries, as well as major public and private collections.
