Artists
ADAM DANT
Dant creates dense and elaborate drawings, thoroughly researched and
often possessed of a dysfunctional, semicircular logic. Mishap and folly
proliferate his work. Museums are common subjects, as are maps and
complicated jokes. Dant's recent works often take the form of large
brush and ink drawings and have been described as Hogarthian or Swiftian
especially in relation to his use of satire. These drawings continue
his interest in depicting and interacting with the public space, the
anecdotal and Utopian grand models.
Between 1995 and the millennium, Dant acted as an 18th century style pamphleteer, producing and distributing Donald Parsnips' Daily Journal. Some nine hundred editions of the pocket-sized, eight paged journals were produced, never constrained to format, all are utterly unique, and as a collection have become an important document of the London scene in the 1990s. In 2002 Dant won The Jerwood Drawing Prize for his Anecdotal Plan of Tate Britain, founding The Bureau for the Investigation of the Subliminal Image in 2003 and The Guild of Neologists in 2005.
Adam Dant was born in Cambridge in 1967 and now lives and works in London. His drawings can be found in numerous public and private collections including The Arts Council Collection, The V&A, The Museum of London, The Government Art Collection, MoMA, New York, Deutsche Bank, The Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon and the San Diego Museum of Art.
Between 1995 and the millennium, Dant acted as an 18th century style pamphleteer, producing and distributing Donald Parsnips' Daily Journal. Some nine hundred editions of the pocket-sized, eight paged journals were produced, never constrained to format, all are utterly unique, and as a collection have become an important document of the London scene in the 1990s. In 2002 Dant won The Jerwood Drawing Prize for his Anecdotal Plan of Tate Britain, founding The Bureau for the Investigation of the Subliminal Image in 2003 and The Guild of Neologists in 2005.
Adam Dant was born in Cambridge in 1967 and now lives and works in London. His drawings can be found in numerous public and private collections including The Arts Council Collection, The V&A, The Museum of London, The Government Art Collection, MoMA, New York, Deutsche Bank, The Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon and the San Diego Museum of Art.