Brendan Burns

Brendan Burns’ work, both past and present, is underpinned by the central themes of absence, isolation, mortality and the spiritual. It is the balance between paint, process and subject matter that has maintained his visual language and its development. His artwork consists of one common theme, his interest in geology and the make-up of the natural world. “I’m drawn to places where there is raw evidence of a place’s making and geological history.”

He then uses paint and charcoal to communicate this experience to the viewer as well as incorporating his own refractions of self, identity and awareness of mortality and the spiritual.