SUE DUNKLEY: WORK FROM THE 1960S & 1970S
2017-06-26This exhibition follows the 2016 solo show curated by Sue Dunkley’s daughter, playwright Jane Bodie, and her brother Jim Dunkley, in the artist’s Islington home and studio where she had lived and worked for over 50 years. Sue Dunkley now sadly suffers from dementia and has recently moved to a local care home. The current exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery focuses on a series of large-scale paintings from the 70s and works on paper from the 60s through to 1980. This will be the artist’s first major gallery show in over a decade.
Sue Dunkley was close to many key figures of the 60s, 70s and 80s in London. In 1968 she interviewed Barbara Hepworth and was friends with British artist Phyllida Barlow and Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. Dunkley was the subject for a painting by Howard Hodgkin and she collaborated on the 1991 film The Railway Station Man starring Julie Christie and John Lynch. Collectors of her work include Harold Pinter, Salman Rushdie and Donald Sutherland.
Opposite – Sue Dunkley, Untitled (Marilyn, Yves & Simone), c. 1975
Exhibition runs through to July 29th, 2017
Alison Jacques Gallery
16-18 Berners Street
W1T 3LN
London
