Stephen Dunne

Philosophy of Mind, in all your favourite colours.

Medium

Painting, Drawing, Animation & collaborative works

Location

Dublin

Statement

Stephen Dunne’s practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach is at the core of this work. The work is realised as painting installations, books, printed matter, works on paper, animations, and as collective artworks (made collaboratively with others). Critical to this processes is an interest in ideas related to philosophy of mind.

Bio

A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Stephen exhibits work internationally on a regular basis. Lives and works in Dublin.

Stephen Dunne, Dublin

Selected exhibitions

9 listed

'Outside the Hermit's Cave" Cavan Townhall, 26
“Premise”, Queen Alexandra’s House, Kensington Gore, London,24,
“A Paradise of Paradox and Pardon”, Cavan Townhall, 23“,
“Call Me”, Galerie PCP, Paris 22
“Whistle and I’ll Come”, Superweakness Den Haag 22,
“Worms In Your Head, A Journey,” Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon Co. Clare, 19;
“Shackled To Belligerent Ghosts”, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, 19;
Uchronia, Not As It Was, But As It Might Have Been, Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 19; Wilder Beings Command,Irish Museum of Modern Art, 17
As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits &Mystics, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 17.

“Stephen Dunne is a truly remarkable painter. His paintings are among some of the most joyful and life affirming I’ve seen. He manages to balance an air of wonder with a cultivated knowledge of our wider culture. It takes more courage to display genuine sensitivity and generosity of spirit than it does the desire for sophistication. Stephen’s is an effortless synthesis of the classic and the romantic. Absolutely timeless.”
Graham Crowley catalogue introduction for "The Tyranny of Ambition", Highlanes Drogheda 2023

Selected work

Shimmer Together (detail), 2022
Oil on Linen · 190x160cm

Outside the Hermit's Cave, 2026
Mixed media on paper · Installation view

Clouds Entangled, 2026
Oil on Linen · 140x90 cm x 2

All Aboard, 2026
Watercolour on paper · 50x70cm

Daydreaming, 2026
Oil on Gesso Board · 25x35 cm

Quantum Knots, 2026
Oil on Linen · 190x160cm

The Sleepwalkers, Queen Alexandra House London, 2025
Oil on Linen · 75x45cm

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