Dan Lovelace (UK)
Residencey July - August - September 2007

Dan Lovelace: You Are Here

My practice focuses on what might be described as mental landscapes or mindscapes. I use composite imagery and a combination of painting and drawing in an effort to get to grips with questions of identity and notions of self. The formats for my work are varied, from large paintings on old screen printing frames, to smaller paintings on canvas or paper, or collages that might start life as postcards.           
Recently my work has changed in format from previous paintings on un-stretched canvases by shifting back onto stretchers, old paintings and screen print frames. Employing these previously used materials, using their existing marks or imagery gives me a physical starting point, allowing me to add, subtract, reform and reference intuitively whilst working.
Part of my work is the development of a visual language through the use of marks, symbols and an ever evolving cast of characters and found imagery.
My source material is eclectic and taken from a variety of elements of the ordinary and everyday; this is not a search for a geographical context, more an exploration into the many aspects of my life that coalesce to form my identity. ‘These comic constructions grapple with boyhood and its evolving perspectives, exploring lines between childhood storybook, adult fantasy, and sexual liberation; innocent and not-so-innocent looking…..the provocative suspension of childhood, adulthood, and sensitive boundaries between innocent and sexual play. Comic-book bubbles, squiggles, crayons, and the use of cartoons all jest at the idea of playroom art attack.’
   These elements are allowed to filter into my paintings and collages, and are encouraged to evolve so that they develop into something completely new that was not preconceived.

Quote taken from Cherwell magazine review of ‘Looting AND Liberation’ exhibition at Lolapoloza Gallery October 2006.

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Biography

Born 1980
Lives and works in London

Visiting tutor Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

EDUCATION
2005/06  MA Winchester School of Art
2002/05  BA(hons) Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
 1999/00 Foundation art and design, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

SOLO SHOWS
2006, ‘Looting AND Liberation’, Lolopalooza Gallery, Oxford
2006 Gata Gallery, Southampton

GROUP SHOWS
2007, ‘Chance-Witness, Witness-Chance’, 443 Gallery, Slough
2007, Dan Lovelace and Frances Greenough, ‘Said’ Buisness School, Oxford
2006, MA Show Winchester School of Art
2006, ‘Art in progress’, St Maurice’s Covert, Winchester
2006, Dan Lovelace and Frances Greenough, exhibition at ‘The Big Bang’ gallery, Oxford
2005, ‘Aarght’, Marmalade Gallery, Oxford
2005, ‘Brainstorm’, Lolopalooza Gallery, Oxford
2005, BA Degree Show, BCUC

TECHNICAL WORK
2005/present
Assistant to artists in construction, hanging and curation of art exhibitions in London, Winchester and Reykjavik (Iceland)
Duties have included, light building work/woodwork, organising and design of promotional material for exhibitions and helping the artists curate the works involved in the show (painting, sculpture and video work).
Artists and galleries include Danny Rolph, Pete Lamb, Dan Coombes, Ian Dawson, Mark Moore Gallery (based in LA) at Scope Art Fair London, Limehouse Art Foundation (London), Museum of Culture (Iceland).