contact details
email: l.dunbar@rgu.ac.uk
tel: 00 44 (0)1224 263694

web site:
Stewart Gallery IDAHO
Open Eye Gallery EDINBURGH
Panter and Hall Gallery LONDON
Compass Gallery GLASGOW
Rendezvous Gallery; ABERDEEN
Printmaking Center Santa Fe
NEW MEXICO
Royal Scottish Academy
EDINBURGH

LENNOX DUNBAR

Biographical Statement

Lennox Dunbar studied Painting at Gray’s School of Art, before taking up a position of etching technician at Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen. In this capacity he worked with many International Artists in publishing limited edition prints. In 1978 he was invited to set up the Amsterdam studio for the Scottish Arts council. He returned to Grays School of Art in 1986 to become Subject Leader in Printmaking. He has been given many National and International Awards including A William Gillies Award in 1999 from the Royal Scottish Academy, which allowed him to work for a period at The Printmaking Center in Santa Fe New Mexico. As a result of this he has conducted workshops there every year since. Recent research has resulted in invitations to participate in International Printmaking Exhibitions in Hungary, India, Bulgaria, Poland and the USA. Invitations have also been received recently to exhibit Paintings in Florida, Montana and Idaho USA.





Personal Statement

My work mimics and inverts processes of archaeology through the media of printmaking and painting. The working and reworking of surface through degrees of chance and control create the phenomenon of landscape. The iconography draws primarily from the NE of Scotland, not through representation, but by evoking empathy for particular values and sensibilities existing in that landscape. I have evolved the means, over time, of constructing works  that sustain the potential for perpetual discovery.

The value of this, has been recognised by national and International Awards, and connection to the galleries and workshops shown under the web site links to the left.

2009 - The Masters of Graphic Arts; 10th International Drawing and Graphic Biennale
2009 & 2010 The Scottish Show; Oakham Contemporary Art London

2009 - Solo Exhibition at the City Art Museum, Gyor, Hungary