Tim Burns: the abstract intuition
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Tim Burns is a notable figure in contemporary Tasmanian painting. Living and working at Cloudy Bay on Bruny Island, his scapes are of a less familiar kind than perhaps one would expect. Cannily referent far beyond his picturesque surrounds, Burns’s works capture more than the geographic and the built, the physical or the cultural, more even than the transitioning weather, capturing instead something like transition itself.
Of surprising scale and variation, Burns’s abstract works drift impossibly between Expressionist joy and Japanese minimalism. Texture, depth and detail shift subtly beneath simple, organic lines and forms. At times they are map-like, at others almost hieroglyphic; there is something ancient in the pictographic markings. The eye traces, rests and returns lyrically, boldly and peacefully.
Burns' works are held in numerous museum collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Burns is a winner of the Hobart Art Prize, 1994 and Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize in 2008.
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Tim BurnsStranded, Ocean Beach, 2024oil on linen153 x 153 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsJetty, the line of thought poised above the plane, 2024oil on linen161 x 153 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 10,500.00
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Tim BurnsThe distance between us, 2024oil on linen150 x 168 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 10,500.00
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Tim BurnsDistance between us 2, 2024oil on linen122.5 x 127.5 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 8,500.00
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Tim BurnsNear me nothing but distance, Cloudy Bay, 2024oil on linen138 x 122 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsMy eye follows the ocean plane as it stretches out before me, and my mind follows it to the horizon, 2024oil on linen62 x 62 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsJetty 1, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsJetty 2, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 3,800.00
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Tim BurnsJetty 3, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 3,800.00
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Tim BurnsJetty 4, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 3,800.00
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Tim BurnsJetty 5, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsJetty 6, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 3,800.00
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Tim BurnsJetty 7, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsJetty 8, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsJetty 9, 2024oil on linen51 x 51 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 3,800.00
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Tim BurnsPleasure proceeds thought, 2024oil on linen31 x 93 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsFor the lungs to draw in air, they must first be emptied, 2024oil on linen56 x 56 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 4,000.00
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Tim BurnsOur souls seek out expression, 2024oil on linen56 x 56 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 4,000.00
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Tim BurnsThe longing to transcend for transcendence, 2024oil on linen46 x 46 (stretcher size)Reserved
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Tim BurnsThe shape that fits the feeling, 2024oil on linen56 x 56 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 4,000.00
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Tim BurnsI looked out over the bay and saw what I was about to say had already been said, 2024oil on linen46 x 46 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsBlack mosaic , 2024oil on linen56 x 56 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 4,000.00
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Tim BurnsUmbra mortis, 2024oil on linen56 x 56 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 4,000.00
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Tim BurnsIt's hard to know where to begin, 2024oil on linen56 x 56 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 4,000.00
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Tim BurnsThere is an ocean of consciousness within each of us, 2024oil on linen56 x 56 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 4,000.00
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Tim BurnsPulse, 2024oil on linen56 x 56 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 4,000.00
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Tim BurnsAnswers satisfy the mind, but not the soul, 2024oil on linen31 x 31 cm (stretcher size)Sold
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Tim BurnsBlack canopy. The moon is 400x smaller than the sun, during the eclipse the moon is 400x closer to the sun than when it is in it's normal orbit., 2024oil on linen31 x 31 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 2,200.00
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Tim BurnsSound is to silence what matter is to space, 2024oil on linen31 x 31 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 2,200.00
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Tim BurnsMagnetic, 2024oil on linen31 x 31 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 2,200.00
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Tim BurnsYou will never know where this will lead you, 2024oil on linen46 x 46 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 3,200.00
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Tim BurnsLogic will only get you part of the way, 2024oil on linen46 x 46 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 3,200.00
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Tim BurnsFollow your intuition, 2024oil on linen48 x 48 cm (stretcher size)AU$ 3,200.00
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 6, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)Sold
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 7, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)AU$ 1,600.00
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 9, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)Sold
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Tim BurnsThe genesis Drawing 1, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)AU$ 1,600.00
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 3, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)AU$ 1,600.00
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 4, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)AU$ 1,600.00
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 8, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)AU$ 1,600.00
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 2, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)Sold
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 5, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)AU$ 1,600.00
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Tim BurnsThe genesis drawing 10, 2024ink on paper, framed42 x 41 cm (framed size)AU$ 1,600.00