Martin Dull
 
 

Worship & Tribute

The rich, fraught, and often misunderstood history of abstraction and image-making become a world in which I can dissent. It allows a place to supplant new ideas that challenge and, perhaps, even influence how we see, associate, or feel. It becomes a metaphor for something as singular as the self, as intimate as flesh, and as expansive as the universe. Instead of a means to an end, the work becomes a doorway.

Mythos, Ethos, Pathos

By both commanding and exploiting the visual languages of painting and sculpture, Mythos, Ethos, Pathos offers a non-objective, yet highly specific environment for the viewer to explore.

New Noise

Conflation in style, content and historical narrative, coupled with the raw, unapologetic intensity of the punk aesthetic, are themes central to this compelling work.

Transubstantiation

This body of work uses allusions to myth, quattrocento artwork, and the tradition of action painting to convey an underlying personal narrative.

Sailing to Byzantium

Once out of nature I shall never take my bodily form from any natural thing, but such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make of hammered gold and gold enamelling. - Yeats