Artist Profiles
Alex Bunn
Alex Bunn’s work combines a role as producer; working with diverse groups of specialists, with his own artistic activity. Typically an artwork may necessarily draw on skills as diverse as radiography, prop-making, pyrotechnics, prosthetics, sculpture, haberdashery, electronics and cooking. Because of the often transient nature of the materials and occurrences, the results are usually displayed as staged photographs or custom-made illuminated cabinets. In broad terms, his thematic predilections are science, philosophy and Epicureanism. Fascinated with the converging paradigms of science, the supernatural, the superstitious and the absurd, his work meditates on the subjectivity of truth and its fluctuating points of reference. He uses science as a springboard for his imagination, discarding more formal representations to produce a body of work that playfully manipulates and transforms known objects to produce unsettling combinations. Through reclassification, and the rearrangement of order, he acknowledges scientific methods, but the results are more akin to that of a “mad Scientist” than the clean and precise methods of a modern technician. In an era of Biotechnological modification, his sculpture Quabrid imaginatively explores the reshaping of the human form. The bust is formed by using multiple high-resolution medical scan topography of different tissues of the body and is then fused with architectural components to create a unique hybrid portrait. Alex Bunn has recently exhibited at the Royal Institute of Great Britain, Candid Arts Trustand The Victoria & Albert Museum.
