Brian Dunlop b. 1938

  • Artist
painter and sketcher. As well as portraiture, Dunlop often incorporates the human figure, or traces of human presence, into his interiors and landscapes.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2007
Name
Brian Dunlop
Birth date
1938
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist
Active Period
  • c.1954-
Languages
  • English
Training
  • 1954- 1958 National Art School [East Sydney Technical College], Darlinghurst, NSW
Is Indigenous
No

painter and sketcher. Dunlop studied at the National Art School from 1954 to 1958.

As well as portraiture, he often incorporates the human figure, or traces of human presence, into his interiors and landscapes.

In 1982 Dunlop explained to Geoffrey de Groen that “you can go on and on with a face. It changes. The light changes, the expression changes, it’s kinetic. a head’s fascinating.”

As a student, Dunlop won the Le Gay Brereton Drawing Prize in 1958. Later honours include being Artist-in-Residence at the University of Melbourne in 1980-81, winning the Sulman Prize for 1980 with his University interior scene The Old Physics Building, and about 100 portrait commissions, including Victoria’s sesquicentenary portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1984.

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Writers:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Francis Giacco
1955
Artist
associate of
Justin O'Brien
1917
Artist
None
Courtesy of: Eva Breuer Art Dealer
Age of Birds
Date
2009
Medium
oil on canvas
58 x 75cm
The Old Physics Building
Date
1980
Recognitions
Victorian sesquicentenary portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
1984
Award
Sulman Prize
1980
Award
Le Gay Brereton Drawing Prize
1958
Award
Citations:
  • Strahan, Lynne, (1990), Brian Dunlop, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Craftsman House)
  • De groen, Geoffrey, (1982), 'Conversation between Geoffrey De Groen and Brian Dunlop - an excerpt', (Place: Sydney, NSW : Art and Australia, XIX/4, Winter, pp 430-433)