Stu Burke: Momentary Sculptures
GLOAM presents: Stu Burke’s Momentary Sculptures
16 – 25 January 2025
Stu Burke plays with material and objects to create glimpses of form and sculptural instances within the gallery. Through the collapse of precarious structures, gravity and chance create new forms. The exhibition will consist of photographic documentation and sculptural remnants. Burke also invites the audience to come and play in the gallery, to create their own momentary sculptures.
Burke’s practice is a playful enquiry that explores the limitations of what painting and sculpture can be, often working between the two, to incite a dialogue between colour, space, material and shape. The works often possess a temporality and honesty as evident in the marks, rips, holes, lines, cracks, stains and scars.
‘I often use found materials and objects as a starting point, something for me to react to. They also serve as a comment, or reflection, of the outside; the city, the street. They act as psychogeographical sketches.’ “These pieces were involved with experimentation and play. And play, I think, is a big factor... And it continues to be in my studio, because that’s how one allows oneself to move in directions which one could not have foreseen.” – Richard Serra (discussing some of his earlier works).
This exhibition is part of GLOAM’s studio holder open call 2025.
160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
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