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CHRISTOPHER JAMES BURNS | visual artist
SOLILOQUY - a solo show of recent work opens Thursday 19th January 2012, 6 – 8pm in the Naughton Gallery at Queens University Belfast.
The exhibition continues until 11 March 2012. For more information; http://www.naughtongallery.org/
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CHRISTOPHER JAMES BURNS is an emerging Irish artist. Working predominantly in sculpture & installation but also in video, photography and on paper; his artworks attempt to give physical form to the emotions, events and experience of everyday life.
STATEMENT
I am concerned with Liminality.
the in-between, things that are in
t r a n s i t i o n.
states of flux,the overlooked and the underplayed.
There exists a pressure, an expectation > for everything to fit, to find place and make sense;
|friction|
with the reality that everything is incoherent and displaced.
I work with fragments.
Shards, pieces, remnants and residue.
I challenge their context, value, history and physicality.
I juxtapose, compliment, destroy and create.
I suggest a path but do not guide.
Language is important. The words we weight with sincerity and dismiss as trivial. Expressions projected from the core yet remaining on the periphery.
the structure of thought.to think in form.
I am left with a sense of: A boundary.
to find a position. to occupy this.
Static.
For only a time.
We each know our own history but do not understand its implications or the reasons that lie behind its curtains of fact and fiction.
I am blind to its beginning and unsure of
theEND.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Belfast, N.Ireland in 1988.
Graduated in June 2010 – BA Fine & Applied Art [first class honours] University Of Ulster
Currently based in St Vincint Studios, Belfast.
[please click contact to request more information]
CONTACT ARTIST
The exhibition continues until 11 March 2012. For more information; http://www.naughtongallery.org/
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CHRISTOPHER JAMES BURNS is an emerging Irish artist. Working predominantly in sculpture & installation but also in video, photography and on paper; his artworks attempt to give physical form to the emotions, events and experience of everyday life.
STATEMENT
I am concerned with Liminality.
the in-between, things that are in
t r a n s i t i o n.
states of flux,the overlooked and the underplayed.
There exists a pressure, an expectation > for everything to fit, to find place and make sense;
|friction|
with the reality that everything is incoherent and displaced.
I work with fragments.
Shards, pieces, remnants and residue.
I challenge their context, value, history and physicality.
I juxtapose, compliment, destroy and create.
I suggest a path but do not guide.
Language is important. The words we weight with sincerity and dismiss as trivial. Expressions projected from the core yet remaining on the periphery.
the structure of thought.to think in form.
I am left with a sense of: A boundary.
to find a position. to occupy this.
Static.
For only a time.
We each know our own history but do not understand its implications or the reasons that lie behind its curtains of fact and fiction.
I am blind to its beginning and unsure of
theEND.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Belfast, N.Ireland in 1988.
Graduated in June 2010 – BA Fine & Applied Art [first class honours] University Of Ulster
Currently based in St Vincint Studios, Belfast.
[please click contact to request more information]
CONTACT ARTIST
