Fiona Burke
dal 27/8/2014 al 12/9/2014
Segnalato da
27/8/2014
Fiona Burke
Talbot Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Behind Bushes. Concerns with the language of painting and the nature of perceptual experience are central to her work.
Painting forms the basis of Fiona Burke’s practice. Concerns with the language of painting and the nature of perceptual experience are central to her work. Through her paintings she attempts toexplore the illusory and limited space of representation, addressing the shifting relationships between surface and object, image and material, artifice and reality.
The studio as an isolated container removed from the outside world is a feeling or state that informs much of Burkes’s practice. Working through the traditional genres of landscape and still life, Burke employs an approach to making paintings that is rooted in the physical space of the studio and the objects and materials she finds around her. As well as making still life paintings from arrangements in her studio, her work frequently includes a wide variety of materials, from bin liners and paint rags, to various types of adhesive tape. Although comprising cheap and disposable materials, there is often an attempt at elevating or transforming these materials through manipulation and different combinations. Working in this way she aims to challenge and extend the representative possibilities of the materials and images she uses.
Burke graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with an MFA in 2010. Her recent group shows include: Dearth, QSS, Belfast, 2014; Beauty and the Sublime: Things Go Dark, The Model, Sligo, 2014; Furniture, Selskar Street, Wexford Town, 2013; Bellwether, The Church Gallery, Limerick, 2013; Claremorris Open Exhibition, Mayo, 2013; Lorg Presents, The Shed Gallery, Galway, 2013;
Talbot Gallery & Studios
51 Talbot Street - Dublin 1
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Saturdays: 11am - 4pm