So far, 2025 has been a milestone year for Gabhann Dunne after his monumental work, ‘Crossing the salt’, comprising 100 painted panels, was added to IMMA’s Permanent Collection. His year concludes with his sixth solo exhibition at the Molesworth.
The limpid colour palette in Dunne's work gives it a visionary, almost poetic quality. Topographical features, figures, buildings and animals emerge from a richly-opaque ground, conjuring a hauntingly-beautiful parallel world. He uses this romantic landscape to critique humanity's annexation of the natural world and our displacement of other species, often appropriating and re-working found imagery to complement his invented narratives.
Dunne is a former winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award and the Hennessy Craig Scholarship at the Royal Hibernian Academy. He was described by Cristín Leach - writing in The Sunday Times - as 'one of the best Irish painters of his generation'.
