My work in both painting and print is made through a process of constructing and deconstructing, building and dismantling, to evoke and embody the nature of change – to reflect and reveal in an associative way the importance of making. Works are resolved by additive, accumulative and sometimes reductive processes, and none are safe until in their frames.
The synthesis of making and idea are fundamental, and decision making is intuitive. There are no working studies, no planned designs, only a considerable amount of drawings or notes, both visual and written that provide a starting point or framework for ideas to grow and evolve from. Overarching themes are responses to autobiographical, archaeological, cultural and environmental sources that connect to the contextual framework of how artists respond to geographical location or a sense of place.
Lennox Dunbar RSA was born in Aberdeen in 1952. He attended Aberdeen Grammar School and studied painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen from 1969–74. He was education officer at Peacock Printmakers from 1982, leaving in 1986 to lecture in Painting and Printmaking at Gray’s before becoming Head of Printmaking in 1987 and Professor of Fine Art in 2008.
Throughout his career he conducted workshops internationally including in the United States, regularly in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These workshops focused on the removal of toxicity from the printmaking process. He is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen