Stephen Dunne

Stephen Dunne

Painting

quantum memory

Quantum Memory, 2026 | oil on canvas, 190x160 cm

Quantum Memory, 2026 | oil on canvas, 190x160 cm

A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Stephen Dunne has exhibited internationally on a regular basis. Selected recent exhibitions include The Tyranny of Ambition, Highlanes, Drogheda; Call Me, Galerie PCP, Paris; Whistle and I’ll Come, Superweakness, Den Haag; Worms In Your Head, A Journey, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare; Shackled To Belligerent Ghosts, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork; Uchronia, Not As It Was, But As It Might Have Been, Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Wilder Beings Command, IMMA; and As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IMMA.

A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Stephen Dunne has exhibited internationally on a regular basis. Selected recent exhibitions include The Tyranny of Ambition, Highlanes, Drogheda; Call Me, Galerie PCP, Paris; Whistle and I’ll Come, Superweakness, Den Haag; Worms In Your Head, A Journey, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare; Shackled To Belligerent Ghosts, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork; Uchronia, Not As It Was, But As It Might Have Been, Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Wilder Beings Command, IMMA; and As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IMMA.

STATEMENT

"The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach is at the core of this work."

"The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach is at the core of this work."

Stephen Dunne’s practice operates across the registers of painting, drawing, moving image and the investigation of speculative and theoretical fictions. The process of making, where each thing leads to the next through an experimental and intuitive approach, is at the core of this work. The work is realised as painting installations, books, printed matter, works on paper, animations, and as collective artworks (made collaboratively with others). Critical to this process is an interest in philosophy of mind, drawing on aspects of the subconscious to enable freer, less conscious or less self-reflexive aspects to come through in the final work.

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