Miriam Burke
Miriam Burke practices in London, she has recently exhibited in Exquisite Decay, Chateaux d'Alba, France. She completed a BA Fine Arts Honours Degree at the University of Brighton, UK in 2005. Burke's drawings pursue the entropic and transformative nature of the drawing process. In her ongoing Chalk Drawings Series, entitled 'Drawing of a Piece of Chalk using the Piece of Chalk Until all that is Left of the Piece of Chalk is the Drawing of the Piece of Chalk', she draws onto a surface using the very subject of the drawing as a mark making tool; an image is made while a piece of chalk is unmade. By devising this strategy Burke highlights the inseparability of product from its process and vice versa. Each drawing is titled with the OS grid reference of where the piece of chalk was found.
TQ 321434
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Drawing
30cm x 40cm
Natural chalk on board
Framed
In this series, each drawing is of a small fragment of natural chalk. As the drawing progresses and the chalk gets progressively smaller, the drawing becomes a representation of the memory of the shape of the rock, heavily influenced by the quantity of the chalk and tooth of the chosen surface.
£525
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