Luke Burton : Moon Singing Dawn Chorus with Bird of Paradise

This piece extends an ongoing series of works using the medium of vitreous enamel. It uses a motif that Burton have used before, a personified moon, but develops these works by 'giving voice' to the these moons through the use of a speech bubble. The work plays with an ongoing interest in the tension between images and language. In this case, images are 'read' like language as archetypes or symbols (the moon) alongside images in place of where language would ordinarily appear (speech bubbles). The speech bubble remaining a visual shorthand for language itself. Both moon and bird are represented as singular entities so there is added ambivalence between the collective idea of a chorus and these isolated solitary figures.

 

Product Information

2024

Vitreous enamel on copper

20cm x 12cm

 

About the Artist

Luke Burton is an artist based in London. A graduate of Royal College of Art (2013) and Chelsea College of Art (2005). He is represented by Bosse and Baum Gallery and has held several solo exhibitions there including recently Westminster Coastal in 2024. He was the Abbey Fellow in Painting at the British School at Rome in 2023 and was Visiting Fellow and Artist-in-resident at Girton College, Cambridge University between 2019-21. He has exhibited internationally including solo shows in Seoul, Athens, Rome, Lausanne, and Tbilisi.

 

Shipping

This work is part of our 2024 Winter Fundraiser and will be available for collection or shipping from 14th - 20th December. Please note all items will be shipped via Royal Mail Tracked 24 unless stated otherwise.