Brickworks - New sculpture by Andrew Burton
2008-04-07
Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf
On Now Until 30th May 2008
Andrew Burton has been a regular visitor to India for many years. His journeys to both the cities and countryside of India seeped into his work, manifest both in animal sculptures and in abstract forms, influenced by Indian architecture and in particular the Jantar Mantar Observatory in Jaipur. Maharaja Jai Singh II built this set of stone instruments, used for timekeeping and measuring the positions of celestial bodies, around 1730. During 2005 and 2006 Burton worked collaboratively with Indian artisans to create a number of sculptures and sculptural installations on the theme of bricks and bees. In the spring of 2006 he also had a residency at the European Ceramics Workshop at ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Further developing this strand of work, Burton has for this exhibition in Jubilee Park re-used some of the bricks from those projects in new forms of sculpture, responding to the modern corporate environment in work where low-tech meets stainless steel and glass. The contrast between the hand-made, curiously organic and colourful brick structures and the cool lines of contemporary architecture is a moment where strangers meet.
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