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mono.poly.chromes
curated by Misuzu Ueda & Aaron Martin

Adrien Allen (VIC), Raymond Carter (VIC), Richard Dunn (NSW), Kerrilee Dixon(VIC), Craig Easton (NZ), Michael Graeve (VIC), Billy Gruner (NSW), Melinda Harper (VIC), Jason Hartcup (VIC), Zhejun Huang (CHN), Kyle Jenkins(QLD), Sarah Keighery (NSW), Simon Klose (VIC), Tom Loveday (NSW), Aaron Martin (VIC), Sarah Robson (NSW), Stefanie Schulte (ACT), David Sequeira(VIC), Lachlan Stonehouse (TAS), David Thomas (VIC), Graeme Thompson(VIC), Michael S. L. Vandorpe (BEL), David Wallage (VIC), Max Lawrence White(VIC)

mono.poly.chromes is a curated group show of artists working in the fields of monochromatic and polychromatic painting. This exhibition brings together twenty-one Australian artists from Melbourne/Naarm, Sydney/Gadigal, Canberra/Ngambra, Launceston/Kanamaluka, and Toowoomba/Woomba Woomba, and three international artists from Shanghai, Dunedin, and Ghent. mono.poly.chromes seeks to share ideas and expand the dialogue around this genre of art making.

Five Walls (Project Spaces 1 & 2)
level 1 / 119 Hopkins St Footscray
Open Wed-Sat 12-5pm

| RICHARD DUNN / THE FOUR AFTERS: Albert Namatjira, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philipp Otto Runge, Richard Buckminster Fuller

3 Nov – Dec 4 2023 / 12-6pm Thu-Sat

“Why ‘after’? Whatever this may suggest it indicates a relationship, not as a dependency but in my case the provocation of the possibilities of ideas underlying a work or that bring something else to mind. Really, all ideas come from somewhere, then we elaborate them in our thinking and the studio or discover new connections.”

| RICHARD DUNN / AFTER NAMATJIRA TO BLASTED GEOMETRIES

GLOBAL ART PROJECT / Melbourne. 4 Jul – 1 Oct 2023

| RICHARD DUNN / THINKING PICTURES

CHARMES NODRUN GALLERY. MELBOURNE / 22 July – 12 August, 2023

A selected survey exhibition to coincide with a forthcoming monograph published by Kerber Verlag, Germany

Introduction
This exhibition is a survey of the work of Richard Dunn to celebrate the forthcoming monograph, Richard Dunn: Thinking Pictures published by Kerber Verlag, Berlin. Necessitated by the space limitations of our gallery, this is a highly selected exhibition. Still, it represents significant areas of focus for the artist over some six … Read More

| ROUND / Wollongong Art Gallery

Gallery 2, Mercury Gallery / 30 June – 17 September 2023

Richard Dunn, *Parts of Speech #2*, noun, 2021, digital print, 40cm. Edition of 3 +1AP.

ROUND
Andrew Christofides, Richard Dunn, Lynne Eastaway, Daniel Hollier, Pollyxenia Joannou, Lisa Jones, Tom Loveday, Hilarie Mais, Dani Marti. Al Munro, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Jacky Redgate and Nuha Saad.
Coordinated by Lisa Jones and Tom Loveday
30 June – 17 September

Round is an artist-led exhibition by mid-career artists whose practices include diverse media, materials and colour. The artists’ work examines ‘roundness’ through exploration of shape, space and colour. Round highlights the problems, questions and answers of individual art practice, whilst collectively reflecting broader themes of popular culture, current affairs and global politics.

Exhibition Catalogue (pdf)

| Richard Dunn: BLACK/WHITE

SNO | Contemporary Art Projects / 19 July 2019 – 9 August 2019

A solo exhibition of six paintings from 1975 at Sydney Non Objective

| IN-Formalism:

abstract non-objective art in Australia from 1968

18 May 2019 – 30 Jun 2019
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

Richard Dunn, Names #3 (Anderson), 1987, oil on canvas

IN-Formalism installation view with Consuelo Cavaniglia, Mel Ramsden, Gorden Bennett Richard Dunn & Nigel Lendon

IN-Formalism witnesses the evolution of abstract non-objective art in Australia from 1968. The exhibition surveys the key generations of artists who have contributed to the ongoing language of abstract art. The exhibition presents these works alongside a wide range of artefacts in design, textiles, advertising, architecture, urban design, film and performance.

IN-Formalism reveals the influence this art-form had in our times.

IN-Formalism features works by these artists: Wendy Paramor, Ian Burn, Richard Dunn, Virginia Coventry, Nigel Lendon, Mel Ramsden, Normana Wight, Gordon Bennett, Karin Lettau, Jacky Redgate, Ruark Lewis, Kerry Poliness, Banduk Marika, Helen Smith, Andrew Leslie, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Eric Bridgeman, Bonita Bub, Biljana Jancic, Jonathan Jones, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Jonny Niesche, Sardar Sinjawi, Rik Rue, Michael Graeve, Philip Samartzis, Warren Burt, Camilla Hannan, Jodi Rose, Patrick Gibson, Jasmine Guffond, Gail Priest, The Loop Orchestra, Alexandra Spence, Glenn Harper, Philip Cox, Bill Lucas, Glenn Murcutt, Harry Williamson, Margaret Grafton, John Kaldor Fabrics, Alan Loney, Amanda Stewart, Brian Fuata, Chris Mann, David Ahern, Philippa Cullen, Stephen Jones, Tess de Quincy, Vsevolod Vlaskine, Central Street Group, Ian Andrews , Garry Bradbury, Kraig Grady, Terumi Narushima

| Winter 2019

19 June 2019 – 27 July 2019
Annette Larkin Fine Art, Sydney

Richard Dunn, Redbank Gorge, 1936 (after Albert Namatjira) cutout #2 - small version 2002-17/18, acrylic on canvas — Richard Dunn, Redbank Gorge, 1936 (after Albert Namatjira) cutout #2 – small version 2002-17/18, acrylic on canvas

Aberhart, Dunn, Laing, Klippel, Tillers, Tyndall, etc

| The Studio

13 July 2019 – 3 August 2019
Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne

Richard Dunn, Ordung Muss Sein #6, 2019, 75 x 55cm acrylic on photograph

Richard Dunn, Ordnung Muss Sein, No.s 4-7, 2019, acrylic on photo

For most people the gallery exhibition is the main focus for art; where work is presented for public consumption, where it all comes together in its most ideal form. The place where art is made is unseen, private and if not exactly secret, incidental to its ‘product’. Like the barbecue and the abattoir, you can’t have the show without the studio. But the studio isn’t simply the production line for the gallery. It’s the place where thinking, invention and personal confrontation takes place and where is the stuff from which art is made. It’s where the materials, ideas and things seen are brought to be recycled. Out of its often messy environment come thoughts ordered in the form of artworks. Seen in this way, the studio is the centre of art and the rest is its residue, but here, the gallery is an extension of the studio.

An exhibition curated by Sadie Chandler and Richard Dunn and including Mark Galea, Dale Hickie, Helen Maudsley, Jan Murray,

| Square

21 September 2019 – 13 October 2019
Brenda May Gallery, Sydney

Richard Dunn, Figure 30 Tetrahedrons with common centre of gravity, 2019, acrylic and graphite on wood panel, four parts

“This was no “empty square” which I had exhibited but rather the feeling of non-objectivity.” – Kasimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World, 1926)

Using the square as a unifying construct, this is an exhibition of ten artists who each present four works on 40cm x 40cm wooden panels. Different formal investigations of non-objective abstraction connect these artists. This may be that of reductive abstraction – where “natural” experiences are reduced to abstract elements on a flat surface or in 3D space – or as the abstraction of geometric elements or constructed forms inherent to the format. Lisa Jones and Tom Loveday curate this exhibition which also includes Richard Dunn, Lynne Eastaway, Dan Hollier, Pollyxenia Joannou, Stephen Little, Stuart Smith, Al Munro and Catherine O’Donnell.