Daniel Lumbini
5 August - 5 September 2009
Exhibitions
The Brick Lane Gallery, London - group show, 1 - 13 July 09
Elevator Gallery, London - group show, July/Aug 09
APW arts, New York - group show, 17 July 09
Brooklynite Gallery, New York – group show, Nov 09
T & P art Gallery, Philadelphia US, December 09
Artist statement
My work is a manifestation of many different ideas and styles, like a collage of 'pretty' and 'ugly' – I tend to paint in two stages: first by viciously attacking the canvas, until I start to see something interesting happening.
Then I’ll put the spray cans down but might not return to the painting for a few days, weeks – months even – before I start with the paint brush.
I was heavily into graffiti as a kid, tagging all over the place, until I studied fine art – which I didn’t have the patience for.
So I spent the best part of ten years working as a missionary in countries like Cambodia, Nepal and Guatemala, before discovering art again. The decay in these countries – as well as the contrasting beauty – weighs heavily in what I paint, I think.
I’m also riddled with chronic Creative ADHD, which makes it difficult to paint one thing at a time, so I’ll always have several works on the go, and will move between them frantically; for me, art is primitive, visceral and arcane.
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