Jack Dunnett

An exhibition of new paintings where Dunnett continues to create enigmatic stories using placed figures that awkwardly meld and jar, framed inside scenes that appear to be staged. He merges traditional oil painting techniques with random reactions between household chemicals, building materials and found pigments. Working with processes that build up and strip away layers, Jack examines relationships between prescriptive mark-making and chance elements, combining structure and chaos to create imagery that holds itself in balanced tension. 

The culmination is work produced on small, intimate boards that present as informative and questioning, demanding that the viewer decode each picture for a unique and personal interpretation. 

 

The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by Julian Spalding, the former Director of Glasgow Museums and the founder of the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art. Julian is now a world cultural historian.