Artist statement
Andrew Burton's most recent work explores bricks. Working in Britain, India and the Netherlands, he formed thousands of tiny bricks from clay and constructed these into various sculptures. Each sculpture would be painted or glazed, but then broken up and its constituent parts used to form the next. In this way the sculptures are continually recycled.
Burton works with a variety of media, including clay, bronze and stone as well as more ephemeral materials such as bamboo or chili peppers.
He has exhibited internationally, in Europe, India and Korea and his work and has undertaken major public commissions in Britain and Asia
In 1990 he was First Prizewinner in the MacGrigor Donald Sculpture Prize
Public realm
- 2011 Butress, CAFKA, Protest: Resist, Waterloo Art Gallery,, Ontario, Canada
- 2011 S'Imrbiquer - Autour de la Brique, Maladrerie St Lazare, Beauvais, France
- 2011 Making Bithooras – Bithooras par haath pa Chaap, National Craft Museum, New Delhi, India
- 2010 Bittern, commissioned for Shanghai Wolrd Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
- 2008 Enclosure - with Ladders, Clayarch Museum, Busan, South Korea
- 2005 Nine Cows, Guwow Eco Park, Taebeak, South Korea
- 2005 SkyQtub, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India
Qualifications and training
- 1986 MA, Sculpture, Newcastle University
- 1984 BA Hons 1st Class, Newcastle University
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 Tierra del Fuego, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
- 2010 Tholos, Globe Offsite, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2008 Andrew Burton, Brickworks, Sculpture in the Workplace, Canary Wharf, London
- 2007 Sculpture of Bricks and Bees, University Gallery,, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2007 Harker's Wall, Waygood, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2006 Sculpture from a Land of Ants and Bees, British Council, New Delhi
- 1996 European Ceramics Work Centre, The Netherlands
- 1995 University Gallery University of Northumbria
- 1994 Walls Mountains Millstones RIBA, London
- 1993 Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
- 1992 Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Kith and Kin II, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
- 2011 Passengers and Goods, Stephenson Works, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2011 Rolling Snowball 2, Quanzhou Contemporary Art Space, Quanzhou, China
- 2008 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
- 2008 Clay, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
- 2007 Brick - the Exhibition, European Ceramic Work Centre, Groos Handelsgebouw, Rotterdam
- 2006 The Stuff of Substance, Squires Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 1992 Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan
- 1990 Kelvin Grove Glasgow, Scottish Gallery, London
- 1990 Lynn Stern Gallery, London
- 1989 Zoocheck Exhibition, London
- 1988 Acanthis Conference, Art in Architecture, Edinburgh
Curated projects
- 2012 Art Lending Library, Market Street Gallery, Glasgow
- 2011 Democratic Promendade, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Public commissions
- 2003 Cook's Earth, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough
- 2001 Cycle, Castle Gate Roundabout, Dudley, West Midlands
- 2001 Annuncation, facilitated by Sculture at Goodwood, Thurloe Street, South Kensongton, London
Projects
- 2009 Jug, British Ceramics Biennial, 'Public' award winner, Potteries Museum, Stoke on Trent
- 2009 Enclosure, temporary installation commissioned for Dutch Design Week, deStrijp, Eindhoven, NL
- 2006 Bricks and Bambooo, European Ceramics Centre, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2010 Bienale Internationale - Creation Contmporaine et Ceramique, Magnelli Museum,, Vallauris, France
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