Revolve Gallery

David Lunt

David Lunt is a Manchester born, Cheshire based artist specialising in Painting. He completed both a BA (hons) Fine Art Painting (1997 -2000) and MA Art and Design Studio Practice (2004-05) at Loughborough University. David has exhibited at several group exhibitions over the years including: ‘On Your Wall Too’ at Leeds Metropolitan University Art Gallery; Grosvenor Open Art Exhibition, The Grosvenor Museum, Chester; and a joint Show with Morris Riley, ‘Altered Scapes’. David has also undertaken a number of solo exhibitions including Artefact, F.A.C.T, Liverpool; The Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, Cheshire and The Circle Club Manchester, in Conjunction with the Castlefield Art gallery. His most recent exhibition in 2010 was at the Harris Museum, Preston, entitled: Waiting for Dusk.

Inspiration

For a number of years his work has mainly been concerned conceptually, with the processes and techniques within both contemporary and traditional painting. His paintings embrace both an interest in the cinematic image, the use of new technologies within painting and a love of landscape and the gothic/romantic in art. The multi dimensional approach that he employs fractures at times, between ‘Abstraction’ and ‘Realism’ and conforms to a notion of ‘Hybrid Painting’, an idea that has fascinated me for some time.

“What I attempt to look at within my art is how painting has been forced to evolve over the last decade to remain innovative and exciting in the ‘Post – Digital’ age and how as an artist/painter I can explore this field, yet at the same time satisfy my own artistic notions and urges”.

To Canvas

Taking personal photographs as well as other sources imagery is collected and then deconstructed, and reworked, to produce compositions. These montages are then reproduced in a painted format and using a number of different surfaces and mediums, such as glass, Aluminium and resin the image is blurred and twisted to create an essence of the ‘Uncanny’. The results are images that resonate a cinematic atmosphere, yet at the same time are beautiful and ambiguous.