2008 oil and mixed media on archival paper 55.5 x 75.5cm -Sold-
2008 oil on Belgian linen 152 x 152cm, $22,000, Finalist, Waterhouse Natural History Prize
2008 oil on Belgian linen 180 x 240cm, $33,000
2008 oil on Belgian linen, $20,000
“Richard Dunlop, is at heart, a well-travelled rebel. This is best reflected in his art practice as he believes “the act of making paintings involves balancing risk-taking with experience”. While most of the risks Dunlop takes are well-considered, some are quite the opposite. He describes studio painting as “an arena almost like a boxing ring… I don’t do preparatory drawings and the final paintings carry some signs of decisions made en route, erasures and changes of mind, remnants of under-painting all add to the archaeology of a picture, an artificial thing like a novel or a film.In the mid-1980’s when I started blurring the interrupted traditions of botanical illustration, landscape and still life with the then moribund tradition of painting, no-one else was doing it because every element of it was downright taboo, collectively almost heretical, and as such, irresistible.” – Eric Nash (interview with the artist), 2008