Brian Dunlop

Dunlop was a close friend of Fred Genis and a regular presence at the Kenthurst studio, where the two collaborated across an extended period in the early 1980s. The prints reflect his range — from the dappled light filtering through trees at Bawley Point on the New South Wales south coast, to intimate interior studies, floral compositions, and landscape. The Sleep portfolio of seven prints and the multiple states of Anna — a portrait of Anna Waldman — demonstrate the sustained attention and technical seriousness he brought to printmaking as a medium worthy of his finest efforts. Rosimonte and Barossa Valley Landscape extend his gaze to South Australia, while Adolescent shows his sensitivity as a figure painter.

Throughout his career Dunlop exhibited widely and was represented in major Australian collections. He was admired by fellow artists as a painter of exceptional integrity — someone who pursued his own quiet vision with complete commitment regardless of prevailing fashion.

Brian Dunlop died in Sydney in 2011.