“[Dunlop] is emphatic in the fact that his sole goal is to put something beautiful in the world; something that was not there before.” – Frances Vinall, 2019

“Dunlop’s imagery has an unusual feeling. He is not simply painting a landscape, but cracking it open, his eye swimming in to find the specific components, and how they are constructed. There is a sense that Dunlop is pulling things apart with his work, fragmenting and reforming to understand what it is that he sees.” – Andrew Harper, 2019

“We do not find many cases of artists trying to rebuild a language for representing the world, in particular through the primary media of drawing and painting.” – Christopher Allen 2019

“Each painting asks its own set of questions.” – Cecily Brown 2019

“The Great Western Tiers (including Cradle Mountain and the Highlands Lakes District) is a wilderness area of Tasmania, adjacent to Deloraine where Richard Dunlop now lives. It is mostly world heritage listed, as it should be, being some of most pristine territory remaining on earth, and hard-fought to keep that state. There, Dunlop experiments with perspective, often conjuring a ‘floating’ interior which allows the picture plane, like language to open into ambiguous space, and allows the viewer to vicariously enter the work.” – Tattersalls Prize 2019

“Tasmania seemed to miss out on the attention of our best modernist landscape artists, who were busy painting the interior. The reef has been largely untouched as a subject for landscape.” – RD 2019

“The act of painting, if done authentically, is not unlike fly fishing for trout.” – Quoted in Glover Prize catalogue re Fly Fisher, Meander River, near Deloraine Collection Craig Eberhardt KC