David Dunne

Born Dublin Ireland,
David Dunne’s work manifests in the interconnection between art, nature, science and technology. Dunne’s practice embraces Video, Audio, Installation, Sculpture and Photography.
The point of departure is through expropriation, entropy and recontextualization.
His work has been influenced by the Arte Povera movement, in making botanical interventions and land art evolving from ideas of entropy, working with the notion of chaos, collapse and transformation.
Working with steel,wood and low–tech archival electrical elements, this exchange of materials informs an intuitive response to particular archaic industrial situations and natural site-specific environments.
In the retrieval of obsolescence he is interested in taking risks with a range of materials that can render new values.

Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin, Ireland Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, New Jersey, USA.

Awards:
2017 Begehungen No 14, Artist in Residence, Chemnitz, Germany.
2016/17 Visual Arts: Travel & Training, Irish Arts Council, Leipzig, Germany.
2009 Culture Ireland. Helsinki, Finland.
2009 Anderson Ranch Arts Centre, Colorado USA. Digital Media Award.
2008 Visual Arts: Travel & Training, Irish Arts Council, USA
2007 Visual Arts: Travel & Training, Irish Arts Council, Germany
2001 Visual Arts: Travel & Training, Irish Arts Council, Poland
1996 Visual Arts: Travel & Training, Irish Arts Council, Germany / Poland
2000 Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dublin, Ireland.
2002, 1998, EV+a Open International Award.
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Selected Solo exhibitions;
2017 Refuge, Power/ Debility Macht-Ohnmacht, Werkstadt, Neukolln, Berlin, Germany. Curators Jule Bottner, Jason Benedict.
2016 Systema Naturae Maskinhallen, Not Quite, Fengersfors, Sweden.
Curator Malin Palmn.
2013 “If you could change the world “ The Market Studios, Dublin. Ireland.
2010 Anus Mundi, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland
2002 Red Brick Arts Centre, Aspen, Colorado, USA.
2000 Minimal Metaphors Keble College, Oxford University, Oxford UK.
1996 Drogheda Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co Louth, Ireland.
1995 Wounds Jo Rain Gallery (Kevin Kavanagh) Dublin, Ireland
1987 Forms Limerick City Gallery of Art Limerick, Ireland.
Curator Paul O’ Reilly
1987 Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 antenna / transmitter Begehungen No 14 - Institut Potemkin - Kulturpalast Rabenstein, Chemnitz, Germany.
2017 Hinge/ Undercentral, Strano Film Festival, Capestrano, Abruzzo, Italy.
2017 Goodbye Horses, Pilotenkueche Halla 14 Spinnerie Leipzig, Germany.
Winterrundgang der SpinnereiGalerien Leipzig, Curator’s Ines Muff & Martin Holz,
2016 Gallery Bipolar, Haferkornstrabe, Leipzig, Germany.
2016 Kulturny Dom Lipsk /Salon Similde, Leipzig, Germany.
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