Karl Burke
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The Emerging Visual Artist Award is a partnership initiative between Wexford County Council, Wexford Arts Centre and the Arts Council. The initiative supports promising young visual artists in Ireland with an award of €8,000 and a solo exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre. This award is aimed at recognising and supporting the development of committed emerging artists, in kick starting their career and achieving professional recognition.
Karl Burke is the successful recipient of the 2007 award and will be required to create a new body of work during the period of November 2007 – October 2008, which will be exhibited at Wexford Arts Centre during November 2008. Burke will continue to develop a body of work entitled “wooden drawings", which involves the placement of uniform lengths of processed wood in various situations in a particular environment. These three dimensional interventions endeavor to form a physical and emotive relationship between the art object, space\ place and, in particular, the viewer. It is the artist's intention to subtly cause the viewer to take account of his/her surroundings, natural or architectural. Through these subtle but logical interventions, the artist endeavors to provide the viewer the opportunity to, in a simple but beautiful way reassess and acknowledge the landscape, both natural and manmade. Karl Burke graduated from the Dun Laoghaire College of Art, Design and Technology with a BA (Hons.) in Fine Art. Since graduating Burke’s work has featured in numerous group shows including Sculpture at Kells, Co. Kilkenny; Synesthesia Sat, The Workhouse, Birr, Co. Offaly; House, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London; Your Position As Much As Your Environment, The Model & Niland Gallery, Sligo; Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co. Mayo; and Sculpture in Context, The National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Burke’s first solo show was held at Gallery for One, Dublin in September 2006. |