Dermot Punnett

Dermot Punnett was born in 1980 on the island of St. Vincent. He attended university in the UK and received his BFA from Falmouth College of arts in 2004. Punnett went on to receive his MFA from Bath Spa University in 2007. He was longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2010, and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Charlie Dutton Gallery and A.P.T Gallery in London. Punnett was awarded a Fellowship from The Reed Foundation to attend a residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2013. He has also been featured in Arc magazine, a caribbean contemporary arts publication. Dermot now lives in the U.K with his wife and children and is currently represented by Tarpey Gallery in the UK and Nuedge Gallery in Barbados.

"I start my process with source imagery, which I usually find from trawling through the Internet, or personal photographs... They have to be evocative, without any direct meaning, spaces which can be occupied and explored. An important aspect in choosing an image is also the suggestion it gives of translating into the stuff of paint. Digital processes such as pixilation and the printing process suggest forms of mark making for me....There is something very satisfying about copying an image and then pu...

2007 MA Fine Art, Painting, Bath Spa University, Bath

2004 BA Fine Art, Painting, Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth

* 2012 Midlands Open, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington

* 2012 Diamond Armour, ARTicle Gallery, BCU, Birmingham
Curated by Mona Casey

* 2012 Odds Against Tomorrow, Bearspace Gallery, London

* 2011 Longlisted for Mysteries, Beers.Lambert, London

* 2011 Surface Open, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

* 2011 Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
Selected by Dexter Dalwood

* 2010 Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
Selected by Matthew Collings and Dan Hays



* 2010 2nd stage of submissions, John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize

* 2010 Artswork Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London

* 2010 Dialogues: A Fake Romance?,
Elysium Gallery, Swansea

* 2009 Arctic Fox, Vulpes Vulpes, London

* 2009 Open Call, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London

* 2008 Up & Coming, CUC Northwest, Liverpool

* 2008 Use Your Peripheral Vision to Make A Decision, The Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston-Super-Mare