Category archives: Art

Things can only get worse, so put the kettle on

– a private showing of the latest political work by Dublin Artist, Pete Dunne.

topfloorflat presents the latest works by Artist, Pete Dunne.

We welcome lovers of art and enthusiastic buyers to this beautiful intimate evening in NW6.

Please register your interest here, and we shall be in contact shortly with your invitation and details of our ‘secret’ location.

Drinks & canapes on arrival.


Artist Statement
Governments are psychopaths who work for big business, the financial sector and the 1%. Their job is to lie through their teeth about, amongst other things ‘Austerity’ being a cure all for a debt that was incurred by greedy bankers. It’s the perfect excuse to dismantle the welfare state and the health service. Their interests are served by war, obliteration of the environment, poisoning our food and water, building bigger prisons, censoring the media, suppressing sustainable energy, creating an elitist education system and generally turning the world into a giant slave camp. I aim to highlight how twisted this reality is using any artistic medium at my disposal.


Top Floor Flat

19.10.17

19.00

 

Eventbrite - Pete Dunne Exhibition

PLACESLIMITED

 

Come visit at another time!

Available for viewing from Thursday 19th Oct to 26th of October. By appointment only.

Please email or call us on 07593103525 to arrange a private viewing.

bookaspot@topfloorflat.co

Return to the West

 

– a private showing of the latest landscapes by Irish Artist, Pete Dunne.

 

the latest landscape series by Irish Artist, Pete Dunne.

 

come join us on this special evening to view the latest striking work by this acclaimed Dublin born artist. We welcome both lovers of art and serious buyers to this beautiful intimate evening in NW6.

Please register your interest here, and we shall be in contact shortly with your invitation and details of our ‘secret’ location.

Drinks & canapés on arrival.

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“Most of my work is overtly political and carries a strong social comment, to offset this dynamic I like to paint Irish landscapes. It is like a safety valve and allows me to reconnect with my roots”  – Pete Dunne

www.petedunne.net

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Top Floor Flat

27.10.17

Open from 18.30

 

Eventbrite - Return to the West

PLACESLIMITED

Come visit at another time!

 

Available for viewing from Friday 27th Oct to 30th of October. By appointment only.

Please email or call us on 07593103525 to arrange a private viewing.

 

bookaspot@topfloorflat.co

Pete Dunne Exhibition 2014

Photos by Chris Hayden

Our previous cultural ‘night in’ was surrounded by the wonderful and clever work of Dublin born artist Pete Dunne.

Pete Dunne, Artist - Invitation

Friday 3rd of October 2014

 

Sponsored by INCREATION & Hooper and Kind

 

 

 

‘I came over here with nothing and still have most of it left’


This work by Pete Dunne gives us insight into the world of the Irish emigrants to England. The artist brings into focus the rooted mindful concentration of the musician at a west of Ireland pub session, their pose, a heavy seated weight embodying a sense of place… feet firm on the floor, instrument an extension of the musician, the lament can exist in the tune or the song, so they can exist in the here and now – in and of the land and the landscape.

We emigrants in contrast are unseated, ungrounded, we can have no song, no lament, because there is nothing to contain it, we are always turning back, eyes to the left, faces to the west, bodies twisted as our feet make a feeble attempt to take root in the land we have adopted to survive – but the tune carries on the wind, a constant remembering calling us back home…

We becoming more Irish even than the Irish at home, a human heritage centre of all that is precious and left behind, a museum to the past keeping us tiptoeing around the present…

More about Pete:

Self taught Dublin born, arrived in London in the sweltering summer of ’76 and hitched to India the following year on the day that Elvis died. Returned in ’86 to co-found the psychedelic folk thrash outfit The 7 Kevins and played on the underground squat scene where we became the Mutoid Waste Company’s house band, playing at the legendary warehouse partys of the late 80s.