Claire Burke

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (BA Hons Fine Art Painting , 2015)

Claire Burke grew up in rural Cornwall where she remains an elected member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. After studying at Falmouth College of Art and completing her BA with Honours in Fine Art, she began painting at Central Saint Martins, later exhibiting alongside Sir Terry Frost and Sandra Blow.

Her work using traditional gilding techniques has a meditative quality playing on the light and space of her childhood home. Utilising materials such as gold size, silver leaf, bole and dragons blood, the work is made up of many layers which when dry are then 'distressed' with a cracking product. As she has no control over the final process, the effect is both organic and unique.

These shimmering abstract panels exude a luminous aura that bathes the viewer in a contemplative mood and are critically acclaimed both here and abroad.

Much of Claire Burke's work has been immediately commissioned for private and corporate collections since leaving college. This popularity for using these materials in a different format proves that on international level precious metals will continue to be a language that needs no translation.

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Selected Exhibitions 2011 Art Hamptons, Waterhouse and Dodd USA International Art Fair, Waterhouse and Dodd Art Palm Beach, Waterhouse and Dodd Scope Miami, Waterhouse and Dodd 2010 Edinburgh Art Fair, Cube Gallery London art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery AAF Amsterdam, Cube gallery AAF Autummn Collection, Cobalt Fine Arts Art Hamptons, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Sayre Park, Bridgehampton, NY 2009 Camebridge Art Fair Featured Artist, London Jewellery Week, Hatton Garden AAF Paris AAF Bristol AAF NYC, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, NYC Art At The Top, 74th Floor, Empire State Building. Ronette Riley Architects, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, NYC The Chelsea Art Fair, Cube gallery, Bristol Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Art Miami, USA Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Slick Fair, Paris Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Art Hamptons, USA Cynthia Corbett Gallery, AAF New York Newlyn Art Society, A Cornish Perspective, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Cork Street Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Lulu Blonde, Wimbledon Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London Art 2008 Alan Klukow Gallery 2007 London Design Festival, Best of British 2006 Solo Show, Tallantyre Gallery 2005 Picture This with Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor Wood and Banksy Solo Show, St Giles Street Gallery, Norwich 2004 Cannes Art Fair 2002 The Hutson Gallery, Sackville Street 2001 Number 28, The Gallery on Cork Street London Art, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro 2000 Brilliant Corners, with Sandra Blow and Sir Terry Frost NSA Lemon Street Gallery Solo Show, Broomhill Art Gallery, N Devon 1999 Critics' choice NSA selected by Angela Flowers and Sandra Blow 1996 Thompsons Gallery, The September Show2000The Dark Show / The Light Show NSA 1995 Two man Show, Attendi Gallery, Claire Burke and Victor Passmore Solo Show, Salthouse Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall1995Art in a critical context, Chelsea 1993 Solo Show, Gstaad, Switzerland sponsored by Veuve Cliquot Prizes Live Art, Gstaad, sponsored by Veuve Cliquot Chichester Open, best artist under 26 Miscellaneous Elected Life Member, Newlyn Art Society Residencies Kunsthouse, Eindhoven, Holland Gstaad, Switzerland Kensington and Chelsea College Selected Private Collections Brian Eno Jasmine Al Fyed Richard Hughes (Keane) Earl Chichester CEO of visa international Selected Acquisitions for Permanent Collections London Institute/University of the Arts, London Iris Properties Ltd Mesirow Financial NYRSTAR The Connaught Advent International plc Claredon Bank Teaching Guest Lecturer St Martin's School of Art, Slade School of Art Open University, Philosophy of Aesthetics Kensington and Chelsea College of Art Education Foundation, Falmouth College of Art BA (Hons), Fine Art Painting, St Martin's College of Art Artist in Residence, Kensington and Chelsea College of Art