Pen Dalton

Pens art work spans a period of 60+ years and is roughly divided between printing and painting - between image and text. It recognises - as theorised in a Doctoral thesis - the cognitive and cultural shaping of subjectivity and identity in family-like relations.

In recent years Pen has eschewed academic culture and continues to work through relations of family, difference and hierarchy in combinations of printing and painting. 

Of Irish heritage Pen was brought up in a working class culture attending state schools in South London. The male members of the family worked in the London print industry - “the aristocracy of the working class”; women family members were in service - caring and catering for upper-class families and their establishments north of the Thames.

Pen lives with John Kaler an independent researcher in business ethics, and close to their extended family in N East London.