Chat with Luke Burton

In this Episode, Luke Burton and I discuss his residency in Cambridge at Girton College and the realities of true isolation. We talk about his circling of painting in work that involves a cartoon-like shorthand that withstands a lot of manipulation such as stretching,warping and flattening. We revisit his recent show at Picnic Gallery in Peckham, which was constantly opening and closing and showed stacks of sports equipment in graphic totems to the closing down high street and seem now in memory to preempt the closure of so many shops and the cancellation of all sport. We discuss Pandemic poetry, miniatures, problems of display and drawing and the ornamental, ending with thoughts on the decorative and snooker (Ronnie O'Sullivan.) 


Image: Gene. Vitreous enamel on copper. 2020


Links:

Luke will be having solo shows at Girton College, Cambridge and Bosse & Baum, London in late September. Some of his enamels are on view as part of Preview London on the digital platform Artland (this show migrated from a physical space after Covid-19) at: 

https://www.artland.com/viewing-rooms/ck8hhmwksax7o07829wqiz5cs

Picnic Gallery - https://www.picnicgallery.com/exhibitions/luke-burton-podium-sales

Link to Adorno's Minima Moralia - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3143-minima-moralia

Ronnie's fastest ever maximum clearance of 147 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3C7I5lRZII

http://www.bosseandbaum.com/luke-burton/

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Chats with Artists in Lockdown, is a Podcast of artists talking together. Discussing how the virus has impacted them and their work; what's been lost and what's been discovered. The conversation wanders between artist’s making and thinking and they share their strategies and experiences through this weird time. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emma-cousin/support