Dexter Dalwood

"I’m interested in fictional space in paintings, and how the imagination allows itself to occupy that kind of space. This goes back through a long series of paintings I have been doing where once I find a location which evokes something that the viewer, after reading the titles, doesn’t know, then my image becomes a kind of substitute image." (Dexter Dalwood, in conversation with John Paul Stonard, www.artandarchitecture.org.uk)


"Many of Dalwood's works are about death, or, more precisely, they are concerned with the locations or circumstances connected to someone's death. Brian Jones' Swimming Pool (2000) deals with a subject that has remained in the popular imagination since 1969: the mystery surrounding the death of Rolling Stones' founding member Brian Jones. The painting could almost be a still from a documentary, lingering on the details of the site of Jones' untimely death, and bringing to mind the arguments surrounding it. Whatever actually happened, Dalwood presents us with the one piece of evidence he can produce – his own rendering of the location where it happened." (www.cca.rca.ac.uk)