Richard Dunn: Selected Work 1964-1994

About the exhibition
This exhibition surveyed three decades of Richard Dunn’s practice, a key figure in Australian art recognised for both his intellectual rigour and his sustained commitment to the material qualities of art. Dunn’s depth of interest across history, epistemology, music and architecture resulted in a body of work with wide-ranging social and philosophical implications.

Featuring thirty-two works across various media, the exhibition highlighted Dunn’s sustained engagement with questions of representation and abstraction, form and content, and the tension between modernist and historical approaches to art.

This presentation was a reconfigured and expanded version of Richard Dunn: The Dialectical Image – Selected Work 1964–1992, originally curated by Terence Maloon for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1992. It also included a new work, Homeless, 1994—an installation composed of woven bags.

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^{Image: Richard Dunn, Domestic Disorder and Figure 10 1982, oil and acrylic on canvas, 168.5 x 480 cm. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide}