Oliver

Lunn

Oliver Lunn creates mixed media collages utilizing historically significant materials. The enigmatic nature of Lunn's work is evident through his use of ghostly marks and a muted palette, which convey a sense of mystery and tenderness. His fascination lies in the art of erasure, subtraction, and the remnants of what remains. Lunn's work captures the beauty of the overlooked details of everyday life.

For me collage is all about fragments, the bringing together of separate materials — whether painted paper, or paper featuring existing images/graphics — to create something new. I think of it like a DJ digging through crates, dusting off old records, sampling snippets and creating a whole piece out of these fragments.

Oliver Lunn

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I explore themes of loss and decay, with a visual language that embraces the gentle and soft. I’m interested in sensitive marks that evoke human touch. My aesthetic is partly shaped by my influences — painters like Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg — and partly by the urban environment in which I currently live. I appreciate the weathered walls, half-torn down posters and discarded objects in the street. I’m interested in the presence of the past, in visual ghosts and echoes. It’s important for me that the work looks and feels like a human made it. I want the viewer to lean in, take a closer look, and enjoy these details that might be overlooked on first glance.

Oliver Lunn

Oliver Lunn was born in 1987 in the United Kingdom. He is currently based in London, United Kingdom.

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