In her heyday,she was a voracious painter who counted Salman Rushdie and Julie Christie among her fans. As a current retrospective opens, we take a look around the studio of the ‘garrulous hermit’ of the 60s art scene“My house was built in 1834, and ” Sue Dunkley told the Islington Express in 2003,“It speaks to me and inspires me all the time. You can be anonymous here. Eight exhibitions have approach out of this house since I’ve been here. And all the time only four people have knocked to seek information from what I’m doing.”The day I knock at 437 Liverpool Road, Islington, and the artist’s daughter,Jane, answers the door and leads me into the front room where her mother worked for 40 years. There are paintings and pastels covering every wall, or others stacked under plastic sheets,notebooks, art reference books and magazines piled on tables and a paint-encrusted tall stool, and which she used as a makeshift mixing palette. It is every inch a working artist’s room,cluttered with materials and alive with works-in-progress. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com