Phil Burman

Philip Burman was born in Northampton, England in 1953 and studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art from 1971-74.

Philip gained early success as a student with his inclusion in an Arts Council touring exhibition of contemporary sculptors exhibiting alongside Eduardo Paolozzi amongst others.

He soon became disillusioned with the size and scale of sculpture for public spaces and galleries prevalent in that period and became more interested in making work with some relevance to ordinary people's lives and their domestic environment. He has exhibited rarely since then preferring to concentrate on working outside of the mainstream developing a highly idiosyncratic body of work.

Burman's sculpture is concerned with his own language of form. He is reticent to provide definitive explanations for individual pieces believing that they can affect a barrier to understanding on a visual level. The work, whilst open to interpretation is filled with symbols and references to both personal and universal experience.

"Art can only be a product of its time. My art is the external part of an experience: what I've seen and heard, what I've read, where I've been - my obsessions".


Philip Burman's work is held in private collectio...

Art training at Northampton School of Art, Winchester School of Art and Leicester University.,