Brendan Burns b. 1963
Works
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Brendan BurnsKitekite Glen Esk Diptych, 2020Oil & wax on linen152 x 274 cm (diptych) -
Brendan BurnsWai-O-Tapu Flicker, 2021Oil & wax on linen120 x 170 cm
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Brendan BurnsWai-O-tapu Sacred Waters, 2020Oil & wax on linen152 x 198 cm
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Brendan BurnsThe Warbrick Terrace Meander, 2020Oil & wax on linen101 x 121 cm
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Brendan BurnsWaterlily - Piha - Claude Abel, 2021Oil & wax on linen130 x 200 cm
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Brendan BurnsPiha Sunset, 2021Oil & wax on linenDiptych 150 x 260 cm
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Brendan BurnsThorne Bay - Cinder, 2020Oil & wax on linen101 x 121 cm
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Brendan BurnsPutaputaweta, Piha, 2020Oil & wax on linen51 x 56 cm
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Brendan BurnsKawakawa, Piha, 2020Oil & wax on linen51 x 56 cm
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Brendan BurnsOrakei Koraka / SeepOil & wax on linen140 x 150 cm
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Brendan BurnsChampagne Pool (Wai-O-Tapu), 2020Oil & wax on linen51 x 56 cm
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Brendan BurnsBiscuit I, Piha Beach, 2020Oil & wax on linen51 x 56 cm
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Brendan BurnsChant, 2020Oil and wax on linen on canvas130 x 150 cm each
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Brendan BurnsThorne Bay Takapuna, Igneous , 2020Oil & wax on linen122 x 198 cm
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Brendan BurnsWaitomo Pine - Flourish, 2020Oil & wax on linen51 x 56 cm
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Brendan BurnsDazzle IIOil & wax on linen100 x 140 cm
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Brendan BurnsOrakei Koraka GlowOil & wax on linen137 x 152 cm
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Brendan BurnsWhakapapa WalkOil & wax on linen85 x 120 cm
Biography
Brendan Burns in the Piha Studio
Brendan Stuart Burns currently lives and works in Cardiff. He studied Fine Art at Cardiff College of Art (1981 - 1985), and undertook a postgraduate in painting at The Slade School of Art, University College London (1985 - 1987). He won the Gold Medal in Fine Art at The National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1993 and 1998, and Welsh Artist of the Year in 2000 and 2003.
Burns has exhibited both Nationally and Internationally, including America, France, Belgium, Australia and Spain. His one-person exhibitions include Flow & Pulse, Rosenberg & Co, New York (2016), Gesture | Glimpse | Memory, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London, (2015); Influere, Oriel Y Parc - Landscape Gallery, St. Davids, Tidal, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, (2005), Not the Stillness…, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Oriel Clwyd and Newport Museum & Art Gallery (2002), As well as Being… National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Turner House Gallery, Cardiff (1999).
His work is held in numerous private and public collections including The National Museum & Galleries of Wales, The Derek Williams Trust, The Contemporary Art Society of Wales, A Fundacion Casa Museo 'A Solaina' de Pilono, Spain and Contemporary Art Society of Britain (Tom Bendhem Bequest), America, Australia, China, Holland, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Mexico, Switzerland, Taiwan and The United Arab Emirates.
His work is held in numerous private and public collections including The National Museum & Galleries of Wales, The Derek Williams Trust, The Contemporary Art Society of Wales, A Fundacion Casa Museo 'A Solaina' de Pilono, Spain and Contemporary Art Society of Britain (Tom Bendhem Bequest), America, Australia, China, Holland, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Mexico, Switzerland, Taiwan and The United Arab Emirates.
Burns completed his PhD Shadow into Parent Light: Beyond Pembrokeshire, beyond Landscape in 2011. Publications include Glimpse including essays by Mel Gooding, Tony Curtis, Sally Moss and Anne Price-Owen; 2012. Into Painting by David Alston and Mel Gooding published by Seren in 2008.
Exhibitions
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Winter
28 July - 11 August 2025Read more -
Aotearoa Art Fair 2022
STAND A5 16 - 20 November 2022ARTIS Gallery presented three exhibitions over the course of five days at the Aotearoa Art Fair. New Zealand’s premier showcase for contemporary art, held on Wed 16 – Sun 20 Nov 2022 at The Cloud on Auckland’s Queens Wharf. For the Opening Night, Wednesday 16 November, and the first public day on Thursday, 17 November, the Gallery presented works from the estates of John Edgar & Llew Summers. Pivotal works owned by both artists have been made available by the their families to be exhibited on the ARTIS Gallery stand (A5).Read more
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Brendan Burns
Aotearoa - A Brighter Light 31 May - 19 June 2022Brendan 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.”Read more -
Auckland Art Fair
BOOTH A6 24 - 27 February 2021New Zealand’s premier showcase for contemporary art returned in 2021 from Wednesday 24 – Saturday 27 February at The Cloud on Auckland’s Queens Wharf .Read more
