Gary Burkon

Gary Burkon grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, pursuing painting. He completed his degree at the School of Contemporary Arts in Perth, Australia, shifting the focus of his practice to installation and sound art. In the following years he became increasingly interested in butoh and earth-centered spiritualism, fields that intimately informed the development of later work living between Japan, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Relationships between the body and the psychological dimensions it can suggest is a central theme in his mostly figurative work, with imagery sourced through diverse and personal esoteric fields of influence, positioning ‘outsider’ identities in relation to personal and transpersonal spaces, cultural identities, spirituality and the slippery spaces between.
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School Of Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University
Elam School Of Fine Arts, University Of Auckland

Tombomb Clothing 'Uchu Tanjyo' collection - Mememachine Gallery, Sapporo Japan November 2010

'Flora and Fauna' - Whitespace Gallery, Auckland New Zealand 2007

'Fern Drank Of Eupeheme' - Spectrum Project Space, Perth Western Australia 2005

'Nocturnes' The Bronze Gallery - Ballingup, Western Australia 2004

'Follow the White Rabbit' - Artspace, Auckland New Zealand October - November 2003