Doug Burton
Location: Bow, London
Website: www.dougburton.net Solo show now on
'Continuum' at the Schwartz Gallery, Hackney Wick
Dates: 7th July – 1st August 2010
Opening times: Thursday – Sunday 12-6pm
Schwartz Gallery presents the work of Doug Burton showing a new body of work that has been in development for the last 2 years. ‘Continuum’ consists of a wax sculpture installation, computer-generated animation and a large-scale 3D stereoscopic floor installation that together aim to push the viewers’ sensory experience and in turn question the notion of perceived reality and the viewers’ engagement with it. The physical manifestation of layers of history that are in a continuous state of flux is at the core of Burton’s work.
Burton’s solo exhibition explores a sense of the primordial and the viewer’s psychological passage that would take them through shifting states as they engage with the work. In ‘Continuum’ the floor is printed with a pattern of a fragmenting earth that, as it fractures and separates, reveals the city’s essence beneath. The pattern that is formed is punctuated by the architecture of the environment that it envelops, creating incidents within the space that are accentuated by the 3D stereo effect. ‘Umbilicus’ is formed by a heavily modeled surface, echoing the remnants of some alien world or combusted reaction, where the morphology of the forms influence the troughs and peaks of its topography, the resulting wax casts replicate themselves enveloping and forming the entirety of the surface. ‘Straw Dog’ uses a sacrificial object to create a portal between the artist and the essence of the object, taking the title and starting point for the work from Lao Tzu’s, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5, “Heaven and earth are ruthless and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats the people as straw dogs. Is not the space between heaven and earth like a bellows?”
With generous support from Jesmonite
Opening times:
Thursday – Sunday 12 – 6pm or by appointment.
92 White Post Lane
Ground floor, Building 2
London, E9 5EN
Exhibitions
July 2010 Continuum, solo show Schwartz Gallery, Hackney Wick East London
June 2010 Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2010, Broomhill Sculpture Park, Devon
Jan 2010 Print Now, London Art Fair, Islington Design Centre, London
Dec 2009 Trident Way 2: The Southall Project, Group Show organised by Departure Gallery in a 30'000sqft Warehouse, London
Oct 2009 Galileo, Galileo, Group show, Islington Arts Factory, London (Arts Council England, Royal Astronomical Society funded)
Apr 2009 The Shoe Horn, Group show, Crimes Town Gallery, London
Mar 2009 Hines Urban Gallery Showcase, Hines One Grafton Street Building Wrap, London
Dec 2008 Wonder Island, Group show, Schwartz Gallery, London
June 2008 Burton + Palmer, George Polke 2, London
Jan 2008 Morphology, Doug Burton and Nicky Hirst, Royal Academy Schools Gallery, London
May 2006 International Competition for Young Sculptors, Group show, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
