Ed (B.1994) is a Painter currently based in East Cornwall
"My intent as an image maker is to paint through words. I am fascinated by the notion that narrative, truth and fiction can lend themselves to one another in a way that can offer up genuine questions. Words can in fact lie but feeling is universal in its potency.
My work has always centred on an attempt to ebb toward feeling. That subtle terrain that painting can hold without needing to name. During a recent residency in the south of France I painted only what I saw, working outdoors with an easel, this slowing down of gathered fragments in time became anchors back in the studio. They continued to speak not as literal scenes but as emotional residues. This shift brought a clarity where the resolution is about listening to what a painting asks for.
I often think of painting as holding up a torch in a dark cave, where sustained attention is the water that throws up salt.
Painting reveals its truth not through certainty but through possibility. Through the revelations that occur when feeling becomes form. A quiet confrontation with our shared mortality.
In the act of making I seek to illuminate the threads that collectively bind us together as humans. The Kaleidoscopic stars and the future that’s in-front of us all. Memories are giants cast into stone which is a love letter to strength and that tomorrow will be better."
GENERAL & SALES ENQUIRIES
email: INFO@EDBURKES.COM
Adress: Millbrook, Cornwall PL113ED
For latest studio developments please visit my INSTAGRAM
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Falling from a Hill for a View, Casa Estudio Granados, Barcelona
Revisiting Tempo, Capital Club, Dubai
2023 Tailored Perspectives, M.A.H Gallery & Drakes, London
Two For Joy, San Mei Gallery, London
Reverdie, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
Balancing Birds, ROSL, London
2022 The Pavilions, M.A.H Gallery, London
Separate Ways Together, Wondering people, London
CHORUS, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2021 DANDELION, The Mall Galleries, London (SOLO SHOW)
A Yellow Beat in A Stone House, Blue Shop Cottage, London (SOLO SHOW)
Cruel Intentions, Arusha gallery, London
WHELM, Leicester Contemporary, Leicester
Amongst The Chaos, Wondering people, london
Change, Flatland, Amsterdam
London Art Fair, VioletsAreBlue Gallery, London
2020 DANDELION, Derby museum & Art Gallery, Derby (SOLO SHOW)
2019 London Art Fair, Arusha Gallery, London
2018 Kris Day:Paper Cuts, Saatchi Gallery, London
Veil, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
L.A. Summer , Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
London Art Fair, Arusha Gallery, London
2017 Manchester Art Fair, Arusha Gallery
Contemporary Visions VII, BEERS London, London
FBA Futures 2017, Mall Galleries, London
2016 Saatchi Invest in Art - The Other Art Fair, London
Falmouth Showcase - Underdog Gallery, London
Fine Art Degree Show, Falmouth university
AWARDS
2019 Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award
2016 Wilhemina Barns-Graham Travel to Italy Award
Falmouth School of Art Purchase Prize
Bloomberg New Contemporaries shortlisted Artist
PUBLICATIONS
2024 ELLE Decoration 35th anniversary issue (cover shoot)
2022 MAH Gallery Artist Talk at Soho Home Westbourne Grove
2021 Mall Galleries, Dandelion
A Yellow Beat in A Stone House, Blue Shop Galleries
2020
V21 artspace DANDELION interactive map
DANDELION 'Slowing Down' by Anna Bromwich
Derby Museums Podcast 'In Focus: Ed Burkes'
So Young Magazine: Artist Series Ed Burkes
2019 Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award interview Mall Galleries
2016 Saatchi Invest In Art: Edition X: UK Artists
EDUCATION
2016 BA Fine art (First Class Hons) - Falmouth University