Overview
JOHN BUNKER
selected by Sir Frank Bowling RA
London-based John Bunker (b. 1968) has a multi-disciplinary arts practice. His sculptures, paintings and wall-based assemblages are materially concentrated, while simultaneously possessing an intricate and imaginative quality.
My work is characterised by an obsession with those twin disruptors born of Modernism, abstraction and collage. I like to play with the friction generated between these two modes. I try to make objects and images that are materially dense and brutal yet somehow remain delicate, ludic, poetic.
- John Bunker
John Bunker is an artist, writer and curator who I admire greatly. He combines abstract painting and collage in a highly original way. I look at his artworks every day on my way to the studio. I love their thingness. John obviously has fun in his studio, obsessively making these beautiful and fascinating artworks.
- Sir Frank Bowling RA
Sir Frank Bowling and John Bunker, 2024 by Antonio Parente