Joe Burke
Tribute to Joe Burke
Exhibitions
1980 Solo show, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
1988 Solo show, Pictures Gallery, Manchester
1988 Manchester Academy of Fine Art and Stockport Open, Stockport Art Gallery
1990 Manchester Academy of Fine Art, Manchester City Art Gallery
1992 14 Stations at the Mechanics Institute, Manchester, and at the Loxley Gallery, Colchester
1994 Registered Museum of Modern Art, George Pompideau Centre, Paris
Manchester Cathedral Group Show
1995 Manchester Fabric, group show, Great Hall, Albert Dock, Liverpool
1996 Solo show, Hanover Gallery, Liverpool
1999 Solo show, Stockport Art Gallery
2002 Stockport Open, Stockport Art Gallery
2003 January - March Artists Sketchbooks - group show Drumcroon Education Arts Centre, Wigan.
2003 May - July "Out of the mist and hum of that low land" Drumcroon Art Education Centre, with Clement McLeer, Ruth Thomas, and Judith Railton
2004 Performance Art Project Dada (Art & Anti Art) At Kantonsschule Zurcher Unterland, Zurich, Switzerland
Snockers Restaurant, Altrincham Cheshire
2005 Art for Peace in association with the United Nations, Stockport Art Gallery
Artist’s Statement
"Earth, land and sea form the basis of the work. The pieces are intended to be contemplative as it is the feeling of nothingness that is found in nature and its vastness that influences the use of colour and shape.
This is the world as imagined and not as it is seen, though reference is often made to the weather and the erosion of land and sea, by nature and by man"
Joseph Burke 1948 - 2007
Accomplished coach painter and sign writer on monumental masonary before studying sculpture at Wolverhampton.
Since finishing degree, he taught art related subjects in a range of schools and colleges in and around Manchester up until his death. He was also an accomplished printmaker and had incredible drawing skills.
Joe took a studio space with Woodend Artists Association in 1993,
and was one of the first to work here as an artist.
Joe was a quiet and unassuming man who had a wicked sense of humour and a huge knowledge of the history of art and the contemporary art scene.
When not teaching and visiting galleries, he spent his time in his studio painting huge canvasses.
At the time of his death, Joe was also working on a new range of paintings. These were his Satellite paintings, they were three dimensional and quite small in comparison to his other work.
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