Adam Dant
(British, born 1967)
Biography
Adam Dant is a contemporary British artist known for his visual narratives realized through elaborate and intricate pen-and-ink drawings. Though his work has garnered comparisons to William Hogarth, Dant looks to Pieter Bruegel and Gustave Doré for inspiration. His pictorial social commentaries are well-researched and studied, and imbued with wit and humor. Born in 1967 in Cambridge, England, Dant attended the Liverpool School of Art, where he studied Graphic Design, and after pursued a Printmaking MA from the Royal College of Art. Currently living and working in London, he was named Election Artist by the UK House of Commons for the 2015 General Election—traveling across the country to illustrate the electorate. The 2002 Jerwood Drawing Prize winner has said of this commission that “the nature of what I am doing puts the work outside the contemporary, and that is a deliberate conceit. It gives a distance, because it sets it in a non-specific era of the past or of the future.”
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