Locked and Loaded Exhibition

Delighted to be part of Degree Art’s Locked and Loaded exhibition. “There have been many silver linings amongst the unexpected new challenges faced in 2020. Our first exhibition since lockdown celebrates the pure, multiplices and creative responses this period has enabled. 

The momentum of creativity has never, in our lifetime, felt so powerful. Artists have always needed and have been driven to respond to the world around them. Art provides a means of not only recording a moment in history, but equally gifts a window that transports their audiences on a personal journey they may not have otherwise embarked on.

The ‘Locked + Loaded’ exhibition and the artwork it showcases, is a reflection of the unplanned journey we have been on, a celebration of what has been accomplished and a permanent reminder, that together, we can transform the world for the better.”

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Exhibition at Déda

A large number of my prints will be on exhibition at Derby's fabulous Déda over the summer. The exhibition is free. For more information, please visit http://www.deda.uk.com/whats-on/fi-burke/

Featured in Inside Artists Magazine

Happy to be featured in Inside Artists print and online edition.

In the image of Kant

After attending a symposium about the German philosopher Kant, I became fascinated by his theories on art, ways of seeing, interior and exterior mapping of the mind.

Although intrigued by his theories, I also found myself transfixed by the physicality of his words; specifically the edges of the pages of his ‘Critique of Judgment’ manifested as parallel marks made by the photocopied handouts

I introduced these marks to my mapping process; collage, camera lens and software.

Two and a half centuries later his thoughts have informed both perception and representation by becoming part of my visual outcomes.

Since Sliced Bread Exhibition

I have been struck by the huge part a Miller once played in our lives, how his (or her) relationship with nature and the amazing engineering of the Mill (dating back to the 1200’s) put food on our tables through hard graft. To me, Millers and the people who work just as hard as them today to bring field to fork are unsung heroes; where would we be without them?

The Since Sliced Bread solo exhibition at Ayscoughfee Hall Museum is the culmination of an immersive year of artistic research into the Windmills and communities of Lincolnshire. This fresh body of work presents a unique way of looking at our relationship with the 'Field to Fork' journey.

Works include a field of hand made white windmills placed in an enigmatic grid, reflecting on the unsung roles of Millers and farmers, in our lives throughout history. The field adopts the standard layout of WW1 cemeteries in France. They are redundant, trapped in a windless Medieval brick Undercroft.  A community ‘garden of wisdom’ and other pieces appropriate cupboards and nooks and crannies to infiltrate the architecture of Ayscoughfee Hall.

The exhibition runs from October 8th to December 14th, 2014. Wednesday – Sunday between 10.30am and 4pm. Admission is free.

The preview of the exhibition is on Wednesday October 8th from 6-8pm, this will include an artist’s ‘walk and talk’ at 6.15pm and 7.15pm

For tickets please contact Ayscoughfee Hall Tel: 01775 764555 or email museum@sholland.gov.uk

Ayscoughfee Hall Museum, Churchgate, Spalding, Lincolnshire PE11 2RA

Since Sliced Bread  is a participatory visual arts project exploring and celebrating the culture and history of our regional windmills.

This project is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.  The project is also supported by the University of Derby and Banks Mill Studios.

Arts Council England