North Coast Cluster: Stefan Dunlop Artist Run Workshop for Art Teachers

Stefan Dunlop Artist Run Workshop for Art Teachers in North Coast Cluster/ Sunshine Coast

Run in conjunction with Stefan’s artwork featuring in the Latest and Greatest at the Caloundra Regional Art Gallery during Feb 2023

Above: Stefan Dunlop Splash 3 

What to bring: Images to use for collage (Stefan often uses images from art history)

Outline of Session

• 2.15 - 2.45pm: Artist talk (process/ conceptual ideas/ etc.)
• 2.45- 5pm: hands-on workshop touching on these ideas/ practices:
  * collage/ appropriation - images from online and art history
  * play with acrylic paint + his style of brush strokes/ colour palette/
  * skewed perspective
  * layering
  * creating irony/ twisting meaning
  * a few practices from his 'bag of tricks - using a mirror/ magnify multiply/flip upside down
• 5.00- 5.30pm: QATA discussion involving attendees; volunteers/ideas for the next workshop/meeting

"Stefan Dunlop is a guy who paints confrontational imagery in candy-toned colours. His facility with paint could really get him into trouble. What I mean to say is: a huge part of his work’s appeal is its program of ‘seduce and destroy.’ Seduce by offering the eye unctuous passages of pastel-toned hues, laid down one next to the other in pleasing, rhythmic slices — reminiscent, to me, of Cézanne’s structured brushwork. And destroy because once he’s reeled you in like a fish on a hook – BANG! – you’re left to deal with the uncomfortable irony of his chosen imagery, and the way his pictures insidiously mess with stereotypes, mores and political correctness. They make me angry. But I like that." Carol Schwarzman 2013

Stefan Dunlop's work is on show at the Caloundra Regional Art Gallery as a part of the 'Latest and Greatest' exhibition from Feb 3 to March 19.