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John Dunbar (born Mexico City, 1943) is a British artist best known as co-founder of Indica, the avant-garde London gallery of the mid 1960s, and for his many friendships and connections within the art and music counter-culture scene. He has also consistently maintained an eclectic practice encompassing drawing and collage, sculpture and assemblage, photography and film. His solo exhibition features his notebooks - his constant companions of the past 50 years - displayed for the first time, alongside works and films produced over that same period.

A selection of works from the exhibition John Dunbar: Remember When Today Was Tomorrow are displayed here - more images will be added and a selection of works are available to view by appointment.


Constructions and mixed media   Drawings and works on paper   Paintings   Photography   Sculpture   

Fruitbox Gorilla 2005
9 x 11.25 inches
Acrylic on wooden banana box

Private collection

JDB 020

Baby Face with different coloured eyes c 1986
5 inches diameter
Mixed media construction

JDB 099: Private collection

Studio Wall 2014
151.5 x 55 inches (Variable)
Photograph - Archival inkjet print Edition of 7

JDB 097 Number 1 in edition: Private collection

Phones for Robert (Fraser) c 1968
each 6 x 10 x 6 inches
Collage on two telephones
JDB 096

Double portrait of Robert Fraser on his first day out 1967
13 x 26 inches
Collage with zerox prints laid on paper
JDB 017

Untitled 1969
11.75 x 15.75 inches
Mixed media collage with screen printed plexiglass, found photograph, watercolour and card laid on board

JDB 028: Private collection

Me, (July drawing from a December shot) 1978

Pencil and collage on paper

JDB 078: Private collection

Untitled (Standing Woman) 1980/90
8 x 4.5 inches
Over-painted photograph laid on brown card with over-painting

JDB 032: Private collection

Figure c 1973
13 x 6 x 6 inches.
Bronze - Unique work made using lost wax process. With dried flowers.
JDB 094

Untitled (Marianne) 1982
8.25 x 5.75 inches
Ink and collage on paper

JDB 085: Private collection

Maquette for Monument 1972
5.75 x 8 x 2 inches
Sand-cast Bronze, Unique
SOLD
JDB 095

French Earwig Trapped behind a Picture 1977
paper size 10 x 8 inches
Mixed media collage
JDB 002

Male and Female Herb after Paracelsus 1974
8.5 x 5 inches
Ink and watercolour on paper
JDB 068

J.D. outside INCICA 6 Masons Yard c 1966
16 x 12.5 inches
Mixed media collage and drawing on brown card

JDB 008: Private collection

Drawing Out Alistair Crowley 1989
8 x 5.5 inches
Collage with ink and pencil
JDB 049

Morphing Portrait of William Burroughs 2005
27.5 x 19.75 inches
Mixed media on paper laid on linoleum
JDB 001

Driving through the Wall 1989
7 x 10 inches
Watercolour with collage

JDB 007: Private collection

Smoke from the Trail of the Dragon 2010
5.5 x 4.75 inches
Mixed media on paper

JDB 018

March Parrot 1982
8.25 x 5.75 inches
Ink, watercolour, gouache and collage on paper
JDB 084

One Who Stands on Tiptoe... 1975
8.5 x 5 inches
Mixed media with collage on paper
JDB 073

Untitled (Acid Drawing) 1971
8.25 x 11.25 inches
Inks on paper

JDB 029: Private collection

Untitled (Acid Drawing) 1972
8.25 x 11.25 inches
Inks on paper

JDB 030: Private collection

Magic Square for Jean Michelle (Me doing illustrations for view over Atlantis) 1968
12 x 9 inches
Ink on paper

JDB 031: Private collection

Untitled (Franz Kafka) 1989
9.5 x 5.75 inches
Ink, gouache, watercolour and collage on paper
JDB 090

Joseph Beuys eluding my memory - where was it we met, 1970 sometime 2005
8.5 x 5.5 inches
Collage and pencil

JDB 050: Private collection

Untitled (Standing Man) 1979
10 x 8 inches
Ink on paper
JDB 011

Untitled 1989
8 x 5.5 inches
Mixed media with collage

JDB 045: Private collection

British Passport Overstamped for Intergalactic Travel 1975
8.5 x 5 inches
Pencil rubbing with ink and collage on paper

JDB 074: Private collection

Colin (Colin Self) 1973
8.5 x 5.5 inches
Ink and pencil on paper

JDB 058: Private collection

Informer 1998
5.5 x 7.5 inches
Mixed media with collage
JDB 042

When Papa was Still Young (Ernest Hemingway) 1990
7.75 x 5.5 inches
Ink, gouache and watercolour on paper
JDB 046

Sprayshot 1977
5.5 x 10 inches
Spray paint on found card

JDB 019: Private collection

Katie Asleep at Maida 1978
5 x 8.5 inches
Mixed media with collage on paper
JDB 080

Study for Birdman of Pinner 1986
8 x 5.75 inches
Ink on paper
JDB 044

Untitled 1998
8.25 x 5.5 inches
Ink and collage on paper
JDB 081

Micky's Mortal Coil 1989
6 x 8.25 inches
Ink on paper
JDB 010

Micky on the Golden Mountain 1989
8 x 5.5 inches
Watercolour with collage on paper

JDB 047: Private collection