Loss Sheds a Light on What Remains
Graham Dunning

“Loss sheds a light on what remains, and in that light all that we have and all that we have had glows more brightly still.”
– Michael Bywater, Lost Worlds.

Graham Dunning’s practice deals with temporality, memory and narrative through sound, performance and installation. He is interested in people’s discarded memories and the function of archiving. Found objects, photographs and recordings feature in his work investigating notions of the artifact and implied narrative.

The exhibition features such works as Untitled with Records and Hammer (2009), which invites viewers to smash a vinyl record with a hammer. The diminishing pile of unbroken records and the growing amount of detritus form part of the installation. Each record was carefully considered and bought by the artist in an attempt to become a professional DJ. As such it is a personally cathartic piece and an autodestructive rebirth, acting as a meditation on ambition and failure.

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About the Artist
Graham Dunning is based in London, England. His work includes an interactive installation in Luton, England, featuring ten turntables with dubplates of local environmental sound recordings to be played individually or in combination by the audience; A “listening post” in rural West Wales enabling visitors to hear the sounds of the site through surrogate ears mounted in birdboxes ten feet high; and a work on board a decommissioned light-ship which invited viewers to read from an annotated copy of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim into a microphone, their voices altered through a remote reverberation chamber built in the bowels of the ship from existing structures.

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