Porno for Pirates
Porno for Pirates
Scott Livesey Galleries – Melbourne Australia
Leipzig Show
Time Travel
Frühlingsrundgang
Spinnereigalerien – Leipzig Germany
Alice Art Prize
Alice Art Prize
Araluen Arts Centre – Alice Springs Australia
2014 Australia Council for the Arts Skills and Arts Development Grant
Australia Council Skills and Arts Development Grant
Australia Council Skills and Arts Development Grant to attend LIA Artist Residency
Liepzig International Art Programme
Liepzig International Art Programme
Liepzig Germany
Stefan Dunlop Profile
Stefan Dunlop is a guy who paints confrontational imagery in candy-toned colours. His facility with paint could really get him into trouble.
What I mean to say is: a huge part of his work’s appeal is its program of ‘seduce and destroy.’ Seduce by offering the eye unctuous passages of pastel-toned hues, laid down one next to the other in pleasing, rhythmic slices — reminiscent, to me, of Cézanne’s structured brushwork. And destroy because once he’s reeled you in like a fish on a hook – BANG! – you’re left to deal with the uncomfortable irony of his chosen imagery, and the way his pictures insidiously mess with stereotypes, mores and political correctness. They make me angry. But I like that.
When he and I chatted, he told me he had, at one point, studied for five months at the New York Studio School in Manhattan. This makes perfect sense to me. Not only because of his naturalistic approach to figure drawing (The Studio School is a bastion of disciplined draftsmanship and hand-produced graphic composition), but also because his having spent that block of time in the City that Never Weeps with millions of hardcore tough guys and gals would have allowed his native, Antipodean, comic sense of the absurd to surface and blossom.
I haven’t yet encountered another Australian visual artist who allows him/herself to be so darkly, honestly conflicted in such plain view.
In Australian literature, sure, you meet this with authors like Peter Carey. But, please, will someone reading this suggest other artists in Australia who build a similar construct of pleasure and mordant sarcasm? The work of Richard Bell comes to mind — particularly his video Scratch an Aussie, 2008 — because Bell’s sensibility is also deeply grounded in trenchant wit and fearless piss-taking.
Dunlop’s a good painter and he knows it. He has earned this territory. I support his intuition that there has to be someone here in this neck of the woods holding a dialogue with art history and traditional painting — while also going for the gut.
Carol Schwarzman 2013
Sydney Contemporary 13
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 13
Edwina Corlette Gallery – Sydney Australia
Parliament House Collection
Parliament House Collection
Australian Government, Canberra Australia
2012 Short listed 100 Painters of tomorrow
Short listed 100 Painters of Tomorrow
2014 Leipzig International Art Programme – 3 month residency.
2014 Leipzig International Art Programme
3 month residency.
2012 Sunshine Coast Art Prize – Caloundra Regional Art Gallery – Australia.
Sunshine Coast Art Prize
Caloundra Regional Art Gallery – Caloundra Australia
2012 Gold Coast Art Prize – Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery – Australia.
Gold Coast Art Prize
Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery – Gold Coast Australia
2012 Summer Show, Edwina Corlette Gallery – Australia.
2012 Summer Show
Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia
2012 Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia.
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia
2012 Stefan Dunlop ten years – University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery – Australia.
Stefan Dunlop ten years
University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery – Australia
Group Exhibition Scott Livesey 2012
Scott Livesey Group Exhibition
Scott Livesey Galleries – Melbourne Australia
Concrete Plastic Monument to Nothingness
Concrete Plastic Monument to Nothingness
Scott Livesey Galleries – Melbourne Australia
2011 Clayton Utz Launch Art Award – Brisbane Australia.
Clayton Utz Launch Art Award
Brisbane Australia
2011 Wattle, The Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong.
Wattle
The Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong
2011 Clayton Utz Launch Art Award – Brisbane Australia.
Clayton Utz Launch Art Award
Clayton Utz – Brisbane Australia
2011 The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize – Australia.
The Stan & Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery – Gold Coast Australia
2011 RBS Emerging Artist Award – Sydney Australia.
RBS Emerging Artist Award
Royal Bank of Scottland – Sydney Australia
2011 Rum Sodomy & the Lash – Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia.
Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia
2011 RBS Emerging Artist Award – Sydney Australia
Short Listed RBS Emerging Artist Award
Sydney Australia
2010 Short listed Clayton Utz Launch Art Award – Brisbane Australia.
Short listed Clayton Utz Launch Art Award
Brisbane Australia
2010 Short listed Duke Gold Coast Art Prize.
Short Listed Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
Gold Coast Australia
2010 University of Texas at Dallas Grant
Arts Queensland Grant
University of Texas at Dallas Residency
2010 University of Texas Artist Residency, Centraltrak – Dallas Texas USA.
University of Texas Artist Residency
Centraltrak – Dallas Texas USA
2010 Edwina Corlette Gallery – Small Works Show – Brisbane Australia
Small Works Show
Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia
2010 Approach to the Landscape, AXIA Modern Art – Melbourne.
Approach To The Landscape
AXIA Modern Art – Melbourne Australia
2010 Signal 8 – The Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong China.
Signal 8
The Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong
2010 Clayton Utz Launch Art Award – Brisbane Australia.
Clayton Utz Launch Art Award
Clayton Utz – Brisbane Australia
2010 Recent Acquisitions – Parliament House Collection – Canberra Australia.
Recent Acquisitions
Parliamnet House Collection – Canberra Australia
2010 London Art Fair, COMODAA – London.
London Art Fair
COMODAA – London UK
2010 The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize – Australia.
The Stan & Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
Gold Coast Regional Art gallery – Gold Coast Australia
2010 Art Hong Kong 10, Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong.
Art Hong Kong 10
Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong
2009 Short listed Launch Scholarship exhibition – Clayton Utz/Metro Arts Brisbane Australia.
Short listed Clayton Utz Launch Scholarship
Clayton Utz/Metro Arts Brisbane Australia
2009 University of Texas Artist Residency, Centraltrak – Dallas Texas USA.
University of Texas Artist Residency
Centraltrak – Dallas Texas USA
2009 Noosa Regional Gallery, Traveling Scholarship Show – Australia.
Traveling Scholarship Show
Noosa Regional Gallery – Noosa Australia
2009 Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia.
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia
2009 Chronology – The Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong China.
Chronology
The Cat Street Gallery – Hong Kong
2009 Launch – Metro Arts/Clayton Utz Brisbane Australia.
Clayton Utz Launch Award
Metro Arts – Brisbane Australia
2009 Australia Now – COMODAA – London UK.
Australia now
COMODAA – London UK
2009 Iain Dawson Gallery – Sydney Australia.
Iain Dawson Gallery
Iain Dawson Gallery – Sydney Australia
2009 Select Paintings – Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia.
Select Paintings
Edwina Corlette Gallery – Brisbane Australia
2008 Short listed Gold Coast Art Prize – Gold Coast City Art Gallery.
Short listed Gold Coast Art Prize
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2008 Still Life – Brenda May Gallery – Sydney Australia.
Still Life
Brenda May Gallery – Sydney Australia
2008 Narrative – Brenda May Gallery – Sydney Australia.
Narrative
Brenda May Gallery – Sydney Australia
2008 2 x 2, Tim Olsen Gallery – Sydney Australia.
2 x 2
Tin Olsen Gallery – Sydney Australia
2008 Duke Gold Coast Art Prize – Gold Coast City Art Gallery Australia
Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
Gold Coast City Art Gallery – Gold Coast Australia