ARTIST INFORMATION
Michael Burles
My work is primarily concerned with exploring landscapes and cityscapes through memory and mood. ‘Atmosphere ‘ is as important as a sense of place in these paintings, and I build up layers and veils of paint and glazes to suggest hidden forms and ‘pentimenti’ in and on the picture surface …a deserted building, football pitch or landscape can evoke feelings that are both uplifting and melancholy at the same time.
I am also interested in the marks that people leave in the landscape…tracks, roads, paths and desire lines all reflect the human traffic that has created them, and faint traces of communication lines give a hint of the lives and history that have been associated with a site for generations.
I also enjoy printmaking and regularly produce monoprints, drypoints and etchings.
1959 Born in Englefield Green, Surrey.
1959-1965 Lived in Northern Rhodesia / Zambia, Africa.
1978-1982 History of art degree, B. A .Hons. Manchester University.
1984-1986 Studied Fine Art at London Metropolitan University, Sir John Cass school of Art.
Feb 1991 Qualified as a Football Association (F.A.) coach / Trainer.
1988-1996 Teaching Fine Art and Gallery studies, Fine arts College, Belsize Park.
1996 Summer Etching course at the Slade school of art, University college London.
1996-2004 Head of printmaking and Illustration at Hampstead College of Fine Arts and humanities ,London NW3.
EXHIBITIONS
1987 Group show Elm Park Group...The human figure
1988 Group show, Elm Park group. London SW2
1989 Group show, Elm Park Group. London SW2
1990 One man show, Central YMCA gallery, London WC1
1991 Group show at Twenty Trinity Gardens,London SW9
1991 Travelled through East and Central Africa.
1992 One man show , work from Africa at the 111 gallery, Spitalfields,London E1.
1993 Group show at Connaught Brown Gallery, Albermarle street, London SW1
1994 Group show at the Colonial gallery, Chiswick.
1995 Group show at the Colonial gallery, Chiswick
1996 Group show at the Colonial gallery , Chiswick.
1997 National print exhibition, Mall Galleries,London SW1 Exhibition of prints at the Royal National Theatre, SE1 One man show at the Quaker gallery, St. Martins Lane.WC1
2002 A.S.C. Open studios, London SW9
2003 A.S.C Open studios. London SW9
2004 Fresh Art...at The Business Design Centre, Islington.N1
2005 Arts Unwrapped / A.S.C Open Studios SW9
2006 Artists Open house exhibition, Dulwich Festival.
2006 11.04 Gallery, Shoreditch E2 . One man show , National Architecture week.
2006-7 The Lowry Museum, Manchester. ‘One Love’ ,The football art prize and exhibition...two paintings selected.
2007 A.S.C Open studios
2007 Dulwich festival Artists open house.
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