The limpid colour palette in Dunne’s work gives it a visionary, almost poetic quality. Topographical features, figures, buildings and animals emerge from a richly-opaque ground, conjuring a hauntingly-beautiful parallel world. He uses this romantic landscape to critique humanity’s annexation of the natural world and our displacement of other species, often appropriating and re-working found imagery to complement his invented narratives.
Dunne is a former winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award and the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the Royal Hibernian Academy. He was described by Cristín Leach – writing in The Sunday Times – as ‘one of the best Irish painters of his generation’.
