British artist Piers Bourke deftly straddles the realms of sculpture and two-dimensional art in his innovative and striking wall pieces. The artist creates experiments in linear form by taking photographed environments and showing them from various vantage points, creating the illusion of depth and three-dimensionality. Bourke extracts landscapes, objects and everyday environments and elevates them from their ordinary status, creating new spaces which lack true logic but retain a sense of normalcy.
Hundreds of years ago artists struggled to pioneer true visual perspective. Bourke reminds us that with the advent of modern technologies the struggle is no longer necessary, but that does not mean an enquiry into linear perspective and scale is any less relevant, it is in fact probably more so. In a world pulsating with sophisticated images, where blockbuster films are casually presented in fashionable 3D, Bourke brings the core theme of how we begin represent environments back into focus. The artist's work provides room to pause and reflect upon the real and the illusory.
Created using digital prints on wooden panels, there is a paradox between traditional and contemporary materials. Likewise there is also a duality between representation and abstraction - from oblique angles the works are almost entirely abstract, the subject matter only reveals itself from the frontal vantage point. For his first exhibit in Asia the artist produced Hong Kong specific works, providing a new perspective to a familiar cityscape.
Bourke is currently studying for an MA in design at the University of the Arts London. He received his BA in Fine Art from the University of the West of England, Bristol and attended Chelsea College of Fine Art and Design. He has had several solo exhibitions in the U.K and France, including "Building Perspective" at The Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London in 2009. He recently exhibited in New York at The Rebecca Hossack Gallery entitled, "The Philatelist" in 2014. His work has been shown at Affordable Art Fair Singapore 2015, The London Art Fair 2009, The Toronto Art Fair 2008, Art Sante Fe 2008, Form Art Fair 2008, Art London in 2008 and 2009, Open Art Fair, Jaarbeurs Utrecht, 2009, AAF, New York, London, Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris 2007/09 and at Art Dublin, Ireland 2007/08.
