Jack Lanagan Dunbar

Jack Lanagan Dunbar’s (b. 1988) new body of work titled Visions on display at COMA Chippendale builds from his previous suite of paintings he presented with COMA at Melbourne Art Fair in 2022.

These works document the artist’s crawl back from the brink of abstraction. Here he continues his pursuit of the vignette and remerging symbols and images that have become dominant motifs throughout his practice. They provide handholds, grips for the audience. They are the result of many things converging; moments taken from sketchbooks, memories recorded as notes, research material and discoveries made on his journey through the burgeoning virtual arm of his practice. All these things were added to the cauldron and each work emerged from the bubbling mess a distinct conjuring all of its own.

Visions will continue to explore the tension between materiality and time with an eye on history, whimsy, archaeology, the classical, Romantisicm, humour and tragedy.