Robert Dunt
Born: UK, 1985. Based in London and Bermuda
Disco, Oil on Canvas, 152 × 109 × 4 cm
Camberwell College of Arts (BA Hons Painting , 2008)
Robert Dunt is an abstract/pop art artist who graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School (2004) with First Class honours. His painting, prints and installations are inspired by music and explore the use of colour in a contemporary context. His practice has a rebel ethic that distorts art traditions in order to create surprising and original works: “Like putting Botticelli’s Venus through a Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face distortion pedal.”
He has exhibited nationally and internationally. He has had several solo shows - Madonnas and Housemasters, Charterhouse School (2015), Break on Through, Waterloo Gallery (2004) and I Wanna Trip You Up, Covent Garden (2004). Selected group exhibitions include Alien Beauty, Vyner Street; Fun House, The Empire Bethnal Green; ArtTop10 Presents… , The Menier Gallery; Print Jam 2014, Art Bermondsey; Type 36, The Type Museum; Circus, The Empire Bethnal Green.
He has been selected for the ING Discerning Eye, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, NEAC, and the Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. He featured in a TV advert for TD Trading airing on Sky News. His work is held in numerous private collections. He is the Founder of the art review website ArtTop10.com.
Robert qualified as a barrister and worked as a journalist before studying at City & Guilds of London Art School.
He has also curated numerous art exhibitions including Print Jam 2014, an open submission print competition held through the art review website ArtTop10.com which he runs.
Robert Dunt currently lives and works in London.
EDUCATION
2001-04 City & Guilds of London Art School
First Class, Fine Art Painting BA (Hons)
1995-96 Inns of Court School of Law, Bar Vocational Course
Called to the Bar 1997
1990-93 University of Bristol, BA (Hons) English Literature 2:1
1984-89 Charterhouse
RESIDENCIES / AWARDS
2006 Celeste Art prize
2003 Kidd Rapinet painting prize
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 The Distortion Form Paintings at LMP, Levison Meltzer Pigott, Ludgate Hill.
2017 Open House, Wimbledon
2015 Madonnas at Charterhouse, Bodeites, Charterhouse, Surrey
2016 TV Advert for TD Trading featuring paintings, airs Sky News
2004 Break on Through, Waterloo Gallery, London
2004 I Wanna Trip You Up, Covent Garden
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Defining Structure - The Cello Factory
2018 LAPADA Arts and Antiques Fair - Linda Blackstone Gallery
2018 AAF Battersea - Sherridan Russell
2017 AAF Hampstead - DegreeArt
2017 Chelsea Arts Fair – Sherridan Russell
2017 OC Art Society Exhibition, London
2017 AAF Battersea – Sherrdian Russell
2015 OC Art Society Exhibition, Charterhouse and London
2014 ArtTop10 Presents… The Menier Gallery, London Bridge
Curator & Exhibitor
2012 The Other Art Fair, Marylebone
2010 Alien Beauty : Alien Freedom, Degreeart, Vyner Street With Alistair Baxendale
2009 Rebecca Hossack Charlotte Street Gallery
2009 Cambridge Art Fair
2009 AAF Paris
2009 AAF New York
2009 London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy
2009 AAF Battersea
2008 Edinburgh Art Fair
2008 Birmingham Art Fair
2008 Newscastle Art Fair
2008 Cambridge Art Fair
2008 Norwich Art Fair
COLLECTIONS
Fimat, London
Microsoft, Cambridge
Future Biogas, Guildford
Numerous private collections