About Pete Dunne

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.

Pete passed away on the 23rd of March 2020.

Solo Shows

May - Sept 2018 / 'A spin around the West' / London Irish Centre London

Dec 2018 / 'Things can only get worse' / ArtCore & Graffik Gallery

Nov 2018 / 'Return to the West' / Top Floor Flat Pop-up Events London

Oct 2018 / 'Things can only get worse' / Top Floor Flat Pop-up Events London

Oct 2014 / 'I came over here with nothing, and I still have most of it left' / Top Floor Flat Pop-up Events London

Apr 2014 / 'Crank' / The Courthouse Gallery Ireland

Aug 2011 / 'Solo Show' / Tully's Space Galway Ireland

June 2011 / 'Anti Greed Give-away' / Fishbowl Gallery Dublin Ireland

Sep 2008 / 'Closing Down Sale, Everything must Go' / Amuti Art Gallery London

Mar 2004 / 'My wife says I destroy everything I touch' / The Foundry Gallery Old Street London

2006 / 'Cracks of Brixton' / Betty Morton Gallery Brixton London

Group Exhibitions & Fairs

Sep 2019 / Annual Street Art Exhibition / The Muse Gallery, Portobello, London

Aug 2018 / 'Cash is King' / Saatchi Gallery London

May 2018 / 'The Royal Wedding Exhibition' / Graffik Gallery London

Nov 2017 / 'Xmas Show' / Crows Nest Collective London

Oct 2017 / 'Refugee Community Kitchen Art Auction' / Graffik Gallery London

Sept 2017 / 'Rise Street Art Festival' / Croydon London

Sept 2016 / 'Clamp Down' / New Artist Fair, Truman Brewery London

May 2014 / 'ArtCore Collective Exhibition' / Elephant & Castle London

Sept 2013 / 'Group Show' / Muse at 269 London

Sept 2013 / 'Portobello Film Festival' / Louise T Blouin Foundation West London

Aug 2010 / 'Rise of the Non-conformists' / Whitecross Street Art Festival London

Oct - Dec 2009 / 'One Foot in the Grove' / Portobello Road London

Nov 2008 / 'Mutate Britain' / Curtain Road London

Mar 2004 / 'The Piston Space Show' / London