John Dunbar (born 1943 in Mexico City) is a British artist, collector, and former gallerist, best known for his connections to the art and music scenes of the 1960s counterculture.
Dunbar was born in Mexico City in 1943,[1] the son of the British filmmaker, Robert Dunbar.[2] He has three sisters, Marina Adams, an architect, and twins Margaret and Jennifer Dunbar. He spent his first four years in Moscow, where his father was a cultural attache, before the family returned to England.
In 1965, Dunbar co-founded the Indica Gallery with Barry Miles. The gallery became known for staging exhibitions by cutting-edge artists, including Boyle Family and Yoko Ono from the Fluxus movement. It was at Indica where he introduced Ono to John Lennon.[citation needed] Indica folded in just two years, after which Dunbar became an artist and exhibited work alongside Peter Blake and Colin Self. From 1969 to 1971 Dunbar was exhibitions officer for the British Council, revitalizing their programme by promoting a new generation of artists such as Barry Flanagan, Colin Self, Bruce McLean and Clive Barker.[5] With Jill Matthews, Dunbar later fathered William Dunbar,[4] now a journalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
In January 2006, Dunbar participated in the International Symposium on LSD in Basel honouring LSD inventor Albert Hofmann on his 100th birthday. With John Hopkins and Barry Miles, Dunbar gave the seminar "LSD and its visual impact".[citation needed]. That same year, Dunbar took part in the re-staging of Indica by Riflemaker Gallery in Soho, London, hosting an in conversation with Yoko Ono and as guest speaker with a talk entitled INDICATIONS....[6]
Since the 1960s, Dunbar has consistently maintained an eclectic practice encompassing drawing and collage, particularly in notebook context, sculpture and assemblage, photography and film.[5] As a visual artist, John's work has been featured in a 2008 solo exhibition[7] and 2014 retrospective[5] in London. More recently his film work has been included in group exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary [8] and The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, France.[9]
^ abHarry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopaedia (2000 paperback edition; first published 1992). London: Virgin Publishing, London W6 9HA. p. 403. ISBN0-7535-0481-2.
^ abKate Bernard, "Playing to the gallery", The Observer, 5 November 2006
^ abc"John Dunbar: Remember when today was tomorrow". 13 December 2014.
^"Riflemaker Contemporary Art | the Riflemaker Gallery |".
^"Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus".
^"MAMAC | Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Nice".
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Official website, features a selection of his artwork, exhibitions and curatorials
April 10, 2024
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