{"id":737,"date":"2019-12-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2023-horizon-festival-wp.pantheonsite.io\/local-artist-series-stefan-dunlop\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:44:54","slug":"local-artist-series-stefan-dunlop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizon-festival-wp.lndo.site\/news\/local-artist-series-stefan-dunlop\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Artist Series \/\/ Stefan Dunlop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who are you and what do you create?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy name is Stefan Dunlop and I make and exhibit paintings both on the Sunshine Coast and in the capital cities. I\u2019ve been a painter since around about 16 years of age, at times via a full-time practice and at others in any spare time that I can find.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horizonfestival.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SD6.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>What materials and techniques do you use?<br \/>\nI use traditional oil on canvas painting techniques. Recently I have begun to explore the process of collaboration with other artists. This has been challenging but hugely rewarding.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What kind of inspirations go into your work?<br \/>\nMy work grapples with the visually Baroque age in which we live, via the historical medium of oil paint.&nbsp;I\u2019ve recently worked through a series of paintings that reference art history towards a new series of work based on a fragmentation of space, form, imagery and colour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horizonfestival.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SD4.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"842\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>In what space do you like to create most?<br \/>\nI do nearly all of my work in my studio shed, located at Belli Park in the Noosa hinterland. It\u2019s very basic, essentially a tin shed, but it suits my needs. Its isolated and allows me to escape into the creative zone.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What has been your favourite or most important work to date?<br \/>\nYou always tend to favour a more recent work, so currently I would say it is the paint,&nbsp;The Peasant Wedding.&nbsp;I like it because it brings together a number of concepts that I\u2019ve been bouncing about in my head for the last couple of years. It was recently selected for the Paddington art Prize.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horizonfestival.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SD3.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1031\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horizonfestival.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SD2.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"643\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>To see more of Stefan&#8217;s work, head to his <a href=\"http:\/\/stefandunlop.com\/\">website<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stefandunlop\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who are you and what do you create?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy name is Stefan Dunlop and I make and exhibit paintings both on the Sunshine Coast and in the capital cities. 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