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Brendan Burns

Aotearoa - A Brighter Light

31 MAY - 19 JUNE

After many delays, the first exhibition from Brendan Burns has finally opened in ARTIS Gallery.

Brendan Burns came to New Zealand from Wales in 2020 to complete a 9 week residency at Earthskin in Piha, Auckland. This residency was to conclude with an exhibition in ARTIS Gallery in April of that year. However, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 Brendan had to immediately return to Wales prior to New Zealand lockdown in March 2020.

“Artists consistently talk about ‘light’. Indeed, it has always been important within my paintings; the interplay between reflected and refracted light which helps the ambiguous relationships of the figurative and abstract, microcosm and macrocosm. Light which helps define the difference between pictorial space and sensory space; colour as materiality in its reference juxtaposed with colour as sensation and emotion.”

Brendan Burns at 'Earthskin', Piha

Piha Sunset 
Oil & wax on linen
1500 x 2600 mm
Signed & dated verso
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Waterlily – Piha – Claude Abel
Oil & wax on linen
1300 x 2000 mm
Signed & dated verso

Wai-o-tapu Sacred Waters
Oil & wax on linen
1520 x 1980 mm
Signed & dated verso

Thorne Bay – Cinder
Oil & wax on linen
1010 x 1210 mm
Signed & dated verso

Thorne Bay – Igneous
Oil & wax on linen
1220 x 1980 mm
Signed & dated verso

Dazzle II
Oil & wax on linen
1000 x 1400 mm
Signed & dated verso

Wai O Tapu Flicker
Oil & wax on linen
1200 x 1700 mm
Signed & dated verso

Whakapapa Walk
Oil & wax on linen
850 x 1200 mm
Signed & dated verso

Orakei Koraka / Seep
Oil & wax on linen
1400 x 1500 mm
Signed & dated verso

Putaputaweta
Oil & wax on linen
510 x 560 mm
Signed & dated 2020 verso

Biscuit I, Piha Beach
Oil & wax on linen
510 x 560 mm
Signed & dated 2020 verso
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Waitomo Pine – Flourish
Oil & wax on linen
510 x 560 mm
Signed & dated 2020 verso

Champagne Pool Wai-O-Tapu
Oil & wax on linen
510 x 560 mm
Signed & dated 2020 verso

Kawakawa Piha
Oil & wax on linen
510 x 560 mm
Signed & dated 2020 verso

Whakarewarewa Trickle
Oil & wax on linen
510 x 560 mm
Signed & dated 2020 verso
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"All my work has endeavoured to present the clarity, yet simultaneous abstraction of a ‘peripheral’ experience: the afterimage burnt onto the retina, something which is both precise yet ambiguous, fixed yet transitory, permanent yet ephemeral. I aspire to celebrate a stone’s ability to seep absorbed light, almost as liquid colour when dusk sets. These works ‘re-present’ that connection with our natural world, the simplest and fundamental of human experiences: they give one time to breath. They refract ‘awareness’ itself."

Brendan Burns
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