Artist Profile
Tim Burns
Tim Burns is a legendary figure in the history of Australian underground art. Rising to notoriety in the early 1970’s with a series of (literally) explosive art actions, before decamping to New York, where he remained on and off until the mid-1990’s. Burns calls himself “a context artist”, with his forty years of work forming a critical reflection on our hypermediated, industrialised western society. His interventions, often created live in the public sphere, can result in dramatic shifts in the participants’ focus.
Credit: Lucas Ihlein, Artists Profile Magazine, Sydney (April 2011)
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Tim Burns – DOUBLE VISION
While looking at an unremarkable backyard garden statue, Burns began to see the pose, gazes and gestures of the male and female couple as a precursor of, and licence to, male entitlement and the perpetration of domestic violence that plagues our society. It’s a historic, iconographic forerunner to the statement by Donald Trump, revealed pre-2016 election, that inspired mass pink hatted protests across the USA, UK and Australia. In calling it Double Vision Burns refers both to the direction of their gaze and the pictorial and environmental reality the couple are contained within, one that the audience will experience.
