Jack Lanagan Dunbar’s work explores the tension between materiality and time with an eye on history, whimsy, archaeology, the classical, Romantisicm, humour and tragedy. He works across media, typically incorporating elements of drawing, painting, printing, sculpture and photography in his pieces and often imposing them upon one another. Copper, steel, timber, paper and clay form the bulk of Lanagan Dunbar’s raw materials and it is onto and into these that he produces his marks, sometimes imposing them himself, while at other times stepping back to allow the material to speak for itself. 

Jack Lanagan Dunbar has shown extensively in Australia and abroad, held positions at the University of Technology, Sydney, and University of New South Wales, was the recipient of the 2016 Redlands Art Prize (emerging artist), was a recipient of an Art Incubator grant in 2017 and continues to exhibit both locally and internationally. Lanagan Dunbar was awarded the Brett Whitley Travelling Scholarship in 2019 and has undertaken several residencies in Europe during 2019 and 2020.