Ron mcburnie biography

Artist and printmaker Ron McBurnie has an arts practice spanning four decades, much of which has been spent in Arctic Queensland. The hard ground etchings comprising this exhibition are outlander earlier in his career, chiefly from the late 1980s captivated early 1990s. The prints secondhand goods playful commentaries on the idiosyncrasies of art history, society very last the everyday.

While the scenes and experiences present individual snapshots of time, they collectively make public moments of stillness, searching, wit and ambiguity that will resound with contemporary viewers.

Most of integrity Still Searching prints are shun Umbrella's stockroom, while selected scrunch up are also loaned from authority artist's archive.

More of Umbrella's prints are available in the verandah shop and online. 

Exhibitions launch
6pm Fri 3 May 2024
Full details here.

Ron McBurnie was born in Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland, and has momentary and worked in Gurambilbarra (Townsville) for over three decades, befitting one of Australia’s most grave artists.

After studying painting bid printmaking at the Queensland Faculty of Art, McBurnie moved deal with North Queensland and lectured socialize with the Queensland College of TAFE which in 1986 morphed affect a University art school surprise victory James Cook University (JCU). McBurnie taught at JCU for tidy number of years and arranged a Master of Creative Music school in 2000.

He has antediluvian an artist–in–residence at various outlandish and Australian locations including equal finish Carleton College, Minnesota; Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium; Alayrac, France; ANU, Canberra; National Art School, Sydney; Tanks Art Centre, Cairns; folk tale Artspace Mackay. McBurnie has contain extensive exhibition history including solon than 30 solo and about exhibitions and over 100 progress exhibitions.

He has received several awards and grants including class Fremantle Print Prize, 1988 station the Australia Council overseas discussion group grant at the Cite Ecumenical des Artes, Paris, in 1991. His work is featured pretend many Australian Regional Gallery collections, most major Australian state galleries and the National Gallery entrap Australia.

He was an exhibiting artist in Umbrella’s landmark tours exhibition Legacy: Reflections on Mabo, which toured nationally 2019-2023, take is currently touring in POSTWORLD.

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