Ed (B.1994) is a Painter currently based in Cornwall
My intent as an image maker is to illuminate the threads that collectively bind us together as humans, the kaleidoscopic stars and the future that’s in-front of us all. 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. The revelations that occur when feeling becomes form. My work is about listening to what a painting asks for. The warm intimacy that sits at the root of all images is what paces me into painting. It’s an attempt to fingerprint and evidence our shared mortality.
The roar of an idea is fail-able and can slip away as quickly as it’s tilled up from the ground.
I resist the idea that meaning lives at the end; the paradox of half steps. Where mineshafts are taller than church steeples and the sea looks over the sky. it’s the impossible questions that awaken me.
The strength of an image can be found in its weakness. Weakness not as uselessness but weakness as simply the admission of being human. A hiccup, A sneeze, daily goings again. My lens is the internal focus required to successfully synthesise the universal potency of feeling, the spirit of time.
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
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