Stephen Dunne has been nominated by Mark Titchner as an emerging artist whose work may be complimentary to the Channel 4 collection. Their work will be on display in the Channel 4 Headquarters from February 2008.

Stephen takes as his starting point the simple doodles, marks or stains made by the unconscious. By using this strategy he is deliberately attempting to sidestep traditional methods of painting and open up the possibility for new forms to emerge.

In the same way that we automatically look to see familiar shapes in cloud formations, or more famously in the Rorschach inkblots favoured by many psychoanalysts, Stephen seeks to impose his own sense of order on these marks, seeing in them the figures that haunt our dreams and collective consciousness.

Born in Dublin 1973
M.A. Fine Art Painting Royal College of Art 1999-2001