Daniel Bourke

Still Life Number Six 50 x 50cm Oil on canvas Painting

Still Life Number Seven 55 x 65cm Oil on canvas Painting

My work is about the fluid boundary between the digital and real. Where real world environments can be overlaid with digital information and manipulation and change the relationship which we have with the real. It is my intention to explore this relationship through paint and to resolve these issues in the realm of fine art. I begin most of my work in photoshop where I stitch together digital images, QR code, blocks of colour as well as photographs that I have taken. This process allows me to have much more control of my compositions and allows me to move elements of the painting around on a fluid and instinctive level. Once I am happy with my composition I take my work into painting. Oil paint gives me the opportunity to have a much more personal relationship to my paintings I really believe in the poetry of the marks that can be made on the canvas with oil paint. Despite my work being about the contemporary experience of technology I am inspired by a range of different artists from a range of different eras. For instance the way I build up the layers in my work is heavily influence by my study of the Flemish old masters at the same time I am influence by the way contemporary artists such as Benjamin Edward’s utilize code and technological symbols in their work.

Awards
Kate Barton award 2006

Exhibitions
Uk Young artist 2014
Cork street open 2013
100 Artists, schwartz gallery Hackney Wick 2013
Question. Reaction. Examination. Reaction. Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
MM1 project, arbiet gallery, 2012
Extension, Curious Duke Gallery 2011
The Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair 2011
Battle Art Fair 2011
Summer Salon at the Islington Arts factory 2011
Darling Buds exhibition Parlour Gallery Kentish town.2011
10gs Group show at 10 Grovesnor street, Mayfair 2011
Pavilion gallery,Kentish town, group exhibition 2006
Central st Martins degree show 2006
Gloaming, group exhibition 2003

Publications
http://issuu.com/hesa_inprint/docs/hesa_inprint_20/1
http://www.thenewwolf.co.uk/2012/07/constructexhibition/
http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/2334809
New saints review 2006