David Lunney

Available Works

In The Studio

Biography

David Lunney (b.1998, UK) is an artist based in Dublin. David often uses the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains as his guerrilla sculpture garden, working as a fine art picture framer. Familiarity with the tools and materials has been a boon to Davids practice, applying new and innovative framing techniques to existing tropes within his practice resulted in a hyper-detailed idiosyncratic style.

David's artistic practice involves the undertaking of protracted art processes. The resulting artworks can take the form of prints, drawings or photographs. These images are rendered, framed and presented in a fashion which intentionally obscures and embellishes the original object, vista and moment that they represent. In these artworks, it is often the relationship between representational imagery and it’s surrounding abstract visual information which infers the processes and concepts behind the work. The works have a self-contained narrative; the concept and the material process are intrinsically linked in the artworks discussion of it’s provenance.

Education

BA, National College of Art and Design Dublin, 2010

Diploma, Rhode Island School of Design, 2009

Press

2022, From Here to There, The Douglas Hyde

2021, Artsdesk: From Here to There - Blurred Boundaries, Totally Dublin

2018, Things Twice (Multiple Times), MART Gallery & Studios

2018, David Lunney, Chrome Dreams, Circa Art Magazine

Exhibitions

2023, Silver Thicket, Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin, Ireland, UK (Group)
2022, Paipear, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland, UK (Group)
2022, Ancient Camera, Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare, UK (Group)
2021, From Here to There, Douglas Hyde Gallery, TCD, UK (Group)
2021, Y O U N G F O S S I L, Irish Museum of Modern Art, UK (Group)
2020, These Past Three Months, The Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare, UK (Group)
2019, S.O.I., The Irish Immigration Centre, Philadelphia, USA (Group)
2019, Follain, Pallas Projects, UK (Group)
2019, Bedeck Collaboration with Eleanor McCaughey, Platform Arts, Belfast (Group)
2018, PeripheriesOPEN, Peripheries, Gorey, Wexford (Group)
2018, Ijzingwekkend 5, Kunsthal45, Den Helder, Netherlands (Group)
2018, Skrot fra Rambu, Galleri Elgin, Tynset, Norway (Solo)
2018, Things Twice (Multiple Times), MART Gallery (Solo)
2018, Chrome Dreams, Pallas Projects (Solo)
2017, RE:IN FORCE, MART Los Angeles, USA (Group)
2017, Thinking Living Dwelling, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, UK (Group)
2017, Landscape Contortion, Droichead Arts Centre Drogheda (Solo(
2017, GLITCH 2017, MART, RUA RED (Group)
2017, Standard Exhibition, ArtBox, Dublin, UK (Group)
2016, RUA RED Annual Show, RUA RED, Tallaght (Group)
2016, OneONOne, Clovis VX, Brussels, Belgium (Group)
2016, Things Made For Drawing, Eight Gallery, Dublin, UK (Solo)
2015, Glencree Intervention, The LAB, Dublin City Council Gallery (Group)
2015, Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Gardens, UK (Group)
2015, A Ì„ Ì„A A Ì„ Ì„A A Ì„ Ì„A, 126 Gallery, Galway (Group)
2015, As it Stands, Catalyst Arts offsite project at Riddell’s Warehouse, Belfast (Group)
2014, Sponsor’s Portfolio, The Graphic Studio Gallery, UK (Group)
2014, Sculpture in Context, The National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, UK (Group)
2014, A Popular Destination, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, UK (Group)
2014, The Spirit of the Stairs, Basic Space, Dublin, UK (Group)
2014, Pamphlet, Galeri Hörnan, Falun, Sweden (Solo)
2014, A Natural Selection, The National Botanic Gardens, UK (Group)
2014, Nailing Jelly to the Wall, Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Group)
2013, David Lunney and Andrea Lüth, Mauve Gallery, Vienna, Austria (Group)
2013, Miracle on Crofton Road Street, The Drawing Project, Dún Laoghaire (Group)
2013, RUA RED Winter Show, RUA RED, Tallaght (Group)
2013, RHA Annual Show, RHA Gallery, Dublin, UK (Group)