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Stuart Burne

Stuart Burne is a young artist from Holyhead, born 1985, who is currently in his fourth year in college (2008), studying Visual Art at Bangor. He began his art training with a foundation course in art and design at Parc Menai Bangor in 2003-04 which he completed with distinction. He then enrolled onto the Ba (hons) Fine Art course at Parc Menai in 2004 (part time course 5years) which he will complete in 2009. One of his most influential tutors was the renowned artist Peter Prendergast, who encouraged him to develop his own unique style.

Stuart often used to help his father who worked as a roofer. Stuart became fascinated by the way tarmac melted, and decided he would try and utilised it for his own art work. By now, Stuart has developed a technique of manipulating the tar and using it as thick paint to create extremely abstract pieces. The industrial context of tarmac is something that Stuart has been able to weave into the main theme of his work. He was also commissioned by the S4C television programme Byd o Lliw to produce a reproduction painting by Henri Gastineau, 'South Stack', in his own context. He also experimented with wood panelling, expandable foam & mixing plaster.

Stuart lives near the industrial area of Holyhead, close to the Aluminium Factory and the railway. His grandfather is a retired railway worker and Stuart is very fond of looking at his grandfather's collection of old railway photographs. He has tried to incorporate this family link with industry in his work. Another frequent aspect of his work is his fondness of looking down at his subject, and expressing his work from an aerial viewpoint (partly quoted from S4C's programme Sioe Gelf of May 2006: http://www.celfcymru.com/sioegelf/index.php?page=54fadfcb&cat=79&lang=2). Also see www.stuartburne.moonfruit.com

Since 2007-08 his work has moved away from the material context to a clean surface canvas. Aerial images still feed his work and influence the way he sees. As he explains: "Parys mountain on the corner on Anglesey also influences my work within the landscape and also I seek internet resorces images of other mines around the world. I now experiment painting objects within another images on the canvas. I am also dealing with more vibrant colours within my images direct that I research as a source material. My work is continously changing through different transitions working in the sketchbook".


EXHIBITIONS:
Various open exhibitions.
Bangor art gallery where he won first prize.
Holyhead ucheldre centre, winner of the first prize .
Chester Grosvenor Exhibition.
Galeri Caernarfon.
Oriel Dafydd Hardy.
2008 - First one man show at the Turnpike Gallery, North West England in Wigan .

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