Geoff Dunlop

ARTIST CURATOR.

I work as an artist curator, minus the hyphen. I attempt to balance both roles: seeking the concentration and focus of making images, objects and installations that are directed at the individual viewer; embracing the collaborative and enabling task of shaping exhibitions and events that are created in the company of others.

As an artist, I work invariably with a high definition camera, but my intention is to reach beyond the image - towards the making of an effective and affective object, perhaps even an experience. Inevitably, this leads me to explore both materials and the immaterial, scale and the use of space. As well printing on art paper, I print onto aluminium, acetate and fabric, especially linen and cotton. When appropriate, I like to let the prints hang freely, unmounted and unframed, so they can respond reflexively to movements in the air. And I use translucency to animate the prints further, as they alter their appearance in response to changes in the light. Although these frequently large prints are at the centre of my output, recent exhibitions have included video projections, sound installations and handmade books, or booklike objects. Making books as been an interest for a long time, but now ...

2022
WORDPLAY, 44AD, Bath, England (artist and curator)

2021
Memorial, FaB21, Bath (artist and curator)

Listen, video FaB21 / 44AD Bath

2020
FLOW Light&Air, Cotswold Sculpture Park, Gloucestershire.
About Trees, Heritage Courtyard, Wells
F for Flora, 44AD Bath
Happenings@Walcot Chapel, Bath (artist and co-curator)

2019
B-Wing, Shepton Mallet Prison, Somerset
ReFormation. Bishop's Palace, Wells
FLOW Reflections on Water, The ICE Gallery, Bath (artist curator)
Paper Structures, Spike Island, Bristol
Action-Reaction, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern,London and Spike Island, Bristol (artist curator)
Deck the Walls, 44AD, Bath

2018
Unity in Diversity, Gabriel Fine Art at 582 Gallery, King's Road, Chelsea
LIVE Walcot Chapel, Bath and other venues in the city (artist and curator)

2017
Digital Takeover, Bath Digital Festival
Law of Identity, 44AD Bath
Time after Time, North Wall, Oxford (artist and curator) Conversations with the Wind, TTTFF, Totnes (artist and curator);

2016
Utopia:Dystopia, FaB16 Festival, venues across Bath (artist and curator)
Find another Bath, 44AD
Storylines, 44AD-RUH, Bath
Direction, Centrespace, Bristol
Waiting Room, art and science 44AD with Bath University
Deck the...