Mark Burrell
Mark Burrell is a British artist and painter.
| Mark Burrell | |
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 Mark Burrell.jpg Mark Burrell in 2014 | |
| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom |
| 🎓 Alma mater | East Coast College |
| 💼 Occupation | Painter, artist |
| 🌐 Website | http://markburrellart.com/ |
Burrell has won multiple prizes for his art, including the Lucy Morrison Memorial Prize. His work has also been featured in books and magazines, including illustrations for The Iron Bridge by John Ward. Additionally, he is jointly recognized with Peter Rodulfo as a leading member of the North Sea Magical Realists.
Critical appraisal
In a career spanning several decades, Burrell has exhibited his paintings throughout East Anglia, London, and the United States, receiving critical acclaim, including the following:
- "Burrell's work is obsessive and probing, revealing underlying elements that question one’s sense of self. A psychotic surrealism that is a refreshing assault on ritualised aesthetics" [1]
- "The paintings by Mark Burrell convey the rare command of a very peculiar and very English painter, for Mark is essentially a storyteller who employs pigment rather than words to construct allegories, fables, and fictions. His fantastic narratives are as much concerned with plot, setting and character as they are with line, space and colour".[2]
- "His paintings are colourful, often very personal, and at times very mysterious. Indeed, these paintings can be looked at again and again. There are touches of humour as well as the darker side of life, from strange green beings growing out of bushes, communing with ghosts, to sheep in fields flying."[3]
- "Mark paints symbolist figurative oils with psychic, religious, or political themes, often dealing with intense states of mind or emotion, a highly patterned world in beautiful states of decay." [4]
Media appearances
Burrell has frequently appeared on British TV, including:
- * Anglia Television Programme: Coastal Inspirations, interviewed in the artist’s studio with work exhibited: Series on Lowestoft
- * BBC 2 TV Programme: Matter of Fact Cabbage Patch War (Nov 1996)
- * Anglia Television: The Front Row' Paintings Exhibited: Presented by Shaun Meo: November 1995
- * Anglia Television: Moving Art, awarded First Prize. Presenter George Melly, interviewed by Sister Wendy Beckett and prize awarded by Bill Oddie: November 1991
- * Anglia Television: personal Interview and paintings exhibited: August 1991
- * Mustard TV: Work shown in documentary Bendy Caravans and Everlasting Pens written and produced by Nick Murray-Brown.[5]
References
- ↑ East Anglian Daily Times December 2000
- ↑ Images Magazine, 1990 by Tony Collins, Head of School of Art and Design, Lowestoft College, Suffolk
- ↑ Eastern Daily Press, Arts Review
- ↑ Wilde Contemporary Art, The Mall Galleries, London
- ↑ "Archived Copy". Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 29 February 2024.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
External links
- Mark Burrell Art - Home Page
- 'Masks and Layers' a portrait of Mark Burrell by Ferini Films
- Mark Burrells 'The Homing-ground' - All aboard the British transcendent locomotion.
- Mark Burrell: North Sea Magical Realist artist extraordinaire
- Nick Murray Brown Talking about The Iron Bridge and various news reels Archived 15 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
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