Chris Dyson has spent the better part of fifty years producing a prolific body of work, including drawings, paintings, and sculptures. However, there is scant evidence of his legacy on the internet; a rare and refreshing phenomenon in the age of the “career artist,” and emblematic of Dyson’s general renegade spirit and inclination to follow his own path. “When you’re young you’ve got that pressure of having a career, of getting somewhere. That drives you mad. Once you get over that, you’re alright,” he says from his home in Stuart Mill, Victoria.
Dyson’s oeuvre is diverse in thematic content, style, and medium. His artmaking is driven by an internal necessity, or urge to explore whatever takes his interest at a particular moment in time. “Artmaking is kind of a place you put yourself in,” he explains. His
