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Lotus

Lotus
David McBurney Mountain is a Mountain

Mountain
searching for nature

Searching for Nature
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Nature I, II & III
Space by David McBurney, detail

Space

Tree-Mountain-Skyline
Eagle line halftone by David McBurney

Eagle & Waterfall
photo by Kate Gibson

AND …
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Windows
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Orientation 1
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Orientation 2
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Orientation 3
Institutional display 2 by David McBurney

participation
one, one, one by David McBurney

one, one, one

Mother
I'm excited to be included in this year's Burnie Print Prize, opening @burniearts this Friday. Good luck to all the finalists :) ---- A Mountain is once again a Mountain Screen Print and acrylic on wood on aluminium 102 x 147 x 2.3 cm This image is delivered from time to time, from place to place, and from person to person, through the slow and tactile process of silkscreen printing. Hand-pulled across the surface, and held within many separate layers of transparency, the graphic patterns of these paired prints offer visual critique on a rapidly evolving digital landscape – an increasingly invisible country, where information collects beyond thresholds of perception. The glassy finish of these prints is a reference to contemporary information surfaces, where digitally shared images appear located and seamlessly present. For me, this illusory interface also evokes a past – a reference to my Vietnamese heritage, and a chance to work conceptually and materially with the aesthetic and preserving qualities of traditional black lacquerware. This combined past-and-present works to invite new ways of seeing in a time where it is becoming harder to notice the generational transfer of information. — The title of this work references a Zen teaching describing how perception can arise in different forms: understanding, confusion… and realisation. In the beginning, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; then, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; finally, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.
I'm excited to be included in this year's Burnie Print Prize, opening @burniearts this Friday. Good luck to all the finalists :) ---- A Mountain is once again a Mountain Screen Print and acrylic on wood on aluminium 102 x 147 x 2.3 cm This image is delivered from time to time, from place to place, and from person to person, through the slow and tactile process of silkscreen printing. Hand-pulled across the surface, and held within many separate layers of transparency, the graphic patterns of these paired prints offer visual critique on a rapidly evolving digital landscape – an increasingly invisible country, where information collects beyond thresholds of perception. The glassy finish of these prints is a reference to contemporary information surfaces, where digitally shared images appear located and seamlessly present. For me, this illusory interface also evokes a past – a reference to my Vietnamese heritage, and a chance to work conceptually and materially with the aesthetic and preserving qualities of traditional black lacquerware. This combined past-and-present works to invite new ways of seeing in a time where it is becoming harder to notice the generational transfer of information. — The title of this work references a Zen teaching describing how perception can arise in different forms: understanding, confusion… and realisation. In the beginning, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; then, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; finally, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.
I'm excited to be included in this year's Burnie Print Prize, opening @burniearts this Friday. Good luck to all the finalists :) ---- A Mountain is once again a Mountain Screen Print and acrylic on wood on aluminium 102 x 147 x 2.3 cm This image is delivered from time to time, from place to place, and from person to person, through the slow and tactile process of silkscreen printing. Hand-pulled across the surface, and held within many separate layers of transparency, the graphic patterns of these paired prints offer visual critique on a rapidly evolving digital landscape – an increasingly invisible country, where information collects beyond thresholds of perception. The glassy finish of these prints is a reference to contemporary information surfaces, where digitally shared images appear located and seamlessly present. For me, this illusory interface also evokes a past – a reference to my Vietnamese heritage, and a chance to work conceptually and materially with the aesthetic and preserving qualities of traditional black lacquerware. This combined past-and-present works to invite new ways of seeing in a time where it is becoming harder to notice the generational transfer of information. — The title of this work references a Zen teaching describing how perception can arise in different forms: understanding, confusion… and realisation. In the beginning, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; then, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; finally, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.
I'm excited to be included in this year's Burnie Print Prize, opening @burniearts this Friday. Good luck to all the finalists :) ---- A Mountain is once again a Mountain Screen Print and acrylic on wood on aluminium 102 x 147 x 2.3 cm This image is delivered from time to time, from place to place, and from person to person, through the slow and tactile process of silkscreen printing. Hand-pulled across the surface, and held within many separate layers of transparency, the graphic patterns of these paired prints offer visual critique on a rapidly evolving digital landscape – an increasingly invisible country, where information collects beyond thresholds of perception. The glassy finish of these prints is a reference to contemporary information surfaces, where digitally shared images appear located and seamlessly present. For me, this illusory interface also evokes a past – a reference to my Vietnamese heritage, and a chance to work conceptually and materially with the aesthetic and preserving qualities of traditional black lacquerware. This combined past-and-present works to invite new ways of seeing in a time where it is becoming harder to notice the generational transfer of information. — The title of this work references a Zen teaching describing how perception can arise in different forms: understanding, confusion… and realisation. In the beginning, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; then, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; finally, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.
I'm excited to be included in this year's Burnie Print Prize, opening @burniearts this Friday. Good luck to all the finalists :) ---- A Mountain is once again a Mountain Screen Print and acrylic on wood on aluminium 102 x 147 x 2.3 cm This image is delivered from time to time, from place to place, and from person to person, through the slow and tactile process of silkscreen printing. Hand-pulled across the surface, and held within many separate layers of transparency, the graphic patterns of these paired prints offer visual critique on a rapidly evolving digital landscape – an increasingly invisible country, where information collects beyond thresholds of perception. The glassy finish of these prints is a reference to contemporary information surfaces, where digitally shared images appear located and seamlessly present. For me, this illusory interface also evokes a past – a reference to my Vietnamese heritage, and a chance to work conceptually and materially with the aesthetic and preserving qualities of traditional black lacquerware. This combined past-and-present works to invite new ways of seeing in a time where it is becoming harder to notice the generational transfer of information. — The title of this work references a Zen teaching describing how perception can arise in different forms: understanding, confusion… and realisation. In the beginning, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; then, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; finally, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.
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I'm excited to be included in this year's Burnie Print Prize, opening @burniearts this Friday.

Good luck to all the finalists 🙂

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A Mountain is once again a Mountain
Screen Print and acrylic on wood on aluminium 102 x 147 x 2.3 cm

This image is delivered from time to time, from place to place, and from person to person, through the slow and tactile process of silkscreen printing. Hand-pulled across the surface, and held within many separate layers of transparency, the graphic patterns of these paired prints offer visual critique on a rapidly evolving digital landscape – an increasingly invisible country, where information collects beyond thresholds of perception.

The glassy finish of these prints is a reference to contemporary information surfaces, where digitally shared images appear located and seamlessly present. For me, this illusory interface also evokes a past – a reference to my Vietnamese heritage, and a chance to work conceptually and materially with the aesthetic and preserving qualities of traditional black lacquerware. This combined past-and-present works to invite new ways of seeing in a time where it is becoming harder to notice the generational transfer of information.

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The title of this work references a Zen teaching describing how perception can arise in different forms: understanding, confusion… and realisation.

In the beginning, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; then, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; finally, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.

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I’ve been lucky enough to be invited into a group exhibition celebrating @tacitart_314 Congratulations to Tim and Keith on 25 years of presenting and promoting art in Melbourne, and thank you for continuing to encourage a community of creativity. Opening celebration: Wed 15 January 6:30-8pm Exhibition dates: Wed 15 Jan - Sun 2 Feb 2025 Featured work: Artist: David McBurney Title: ‘Mountain IV & V’, 2023 (diptych) Medium: screen print on cotton rag on custom wooden panels with aluminium subframe. Dimensions: 50 x 147 x 4cm
I’ve been lucky enough to be invited into a group exhibition celebrating @tacitart_314 Congratulations to Tim and Keith on 25 years of presenting and promoting art in Melbourne, and thank you for continuing to encourage a community of creativity. Opening celebration: Wed 15 January 6:30-8pm Exhibition dates: Wed 15 Jan - Sun 2 Feb 2025 Featured work: Artist: David McBurney Title: ‘Mountain IV & V’, 2023 (diptych) Medium: screen print on cotton rag on custom wooden panels with aluminium subframe. Dimensions: 50 x 147 x 4cm
I’ve been lucky enough to be invited into a group exhibition celebrating @tacitart_314 Congratulations to Tim and Keith on 25 years of presenting and promoting art in Melbourne, and thank you for continuing to encourage a community of creativity. Opening celebration: Wed 15 January 6:30-8pm Exhibition dates: Wed 15 Jan - Sun 2 Feb 2025 Featured work: Artist: David McBurney Title: ‘Mountain IV & V’, 2023 (diptych) Medium: screen print on cotton rag on custom wooden panels with aluminium subframe. Dimensions: 50 x 147 x 4cm
I’ve been lucky enough to be invited into a group exhibition celebrating @tacitart_314 Congratulations to Tim and Keith on 25 years of presenting and promoting art in Melbourne, and thank you for continuing to encourage a community of creativity. Opening celebration: Wed 15 January 6:30-8pm Exhibition dates: Wed 15 Jan - Sun 2 Feb 2025 Featured work: Artist: David McBurney Title: ‘Mountain IV & V’, 2023 (diptych) Medium: screen print on cotton rag on custom wooden panels with aluminium subframe. Dimensions: 50 x 147 x 4cm
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I’ve been lucky enough to be invited into a group exhibition celebrating @tacitart_314

Congratulations to Tim and Keith on 25 years of presenting and promoting art in Melbourne, and thank you for continuing to encourage a community of creativity.

Opening celebration:
Wed 15 January 6:30-8pm

Exhibition dates:
Wed 15 Jan – Sun 2 Feb 2025

Featured work:
Artist: David McBurney
Title: ‘Mountain IV & V’, 2023 (diptych)
Medium: screen print on cotton rag on custom wooden panels with aluminium subframe.
Dimensions: 50 x 147 x 4cm

3 months ago
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Keith and Tim @tacitart_314 are supporting local artists and collectors with a Black Friday promotion. Visit tacitart.com.au to view 120+ promoted artworks from more than 50 participating artists - including this pair of hand-pulled screenprints on cotton rag paper, mounted and wrapped onto custom wooden panels. Each 102cm x 70cm.
Keith and Tim @tacitart_314 are supporting local artists and collectors with a Black Friday promotion. Visit tacitart.com.au to view 120+ promoted artworks from more than 50 participating artists - including this pair of hand-pulled screenprints on cotton rag paper, mounted and wrapped onto custom wooden panels. Each 102cm x 70cm.
Keith and Tim @tacitart_314 are supporting local artists and collectors with a Black Friday promotion. Visit tacitart.com.au to view 120+ promoted artworks from more than 50 participating artists - including this pair of hand-pulled screenprints on cotton rag paper, mounted and wrapped onto custom wooden panels. Each 102cm x 70cm.
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Keith and Tim @tacitart_314 are supporting local artists and collectors with a Black Friday promotion. Visit tacitart.com.au to view 120+ promoted artworks from more than 50 participating artists – including this pair of hand-pulled screenprints on cotton rag paper, mounted and wrapped onto custom wooden panels. Each 102cm x 70cm.

6 months ago
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Over the past two months, 40 artists were challenged to transform a functional, blank, lidded box into art. My work references the gloss finish of lacquerware – a method of protecting and decorating wooden objects traditional in Vietnam and East Asian countries. The image is inspired by my mother's name, which means 'lotus' in Vietnamese. The print is inlaid at different levels into the paint layers, invoking the Buddhist symbolism of a lotus plant – growing upward through a common and submerged darkness, toward light, and delivery of a shared beauty. Lotus will be on show between the 6th and 23rd of December @tacitgalleries Opening: Wednesday 06 December | 6:30–8pm Exhibition: 06–23 December | Wed–Sun 11-5pm Location: Tacit Galleries Level 1, 189 Johnston St, Collingwood --- Lotus, 2023 Wooden box with acrylic lacquer, alloy gilding and hand-dyed felt 20 x 25 x 7cm
Over the past two months, 40 artists were challenged to transform a functional, blank, lidded box into art. My work references the gloss finish of lacquerware – a method of protecting and decorating wooden objects traditional in Vietnam and East Asian countries. The image is inspired by my mother's name, which means 'lotus' in Vietnamese. The print is inlaid at different levels into the paint layers, invoking the Buddhist symbolism of a lotus plant – growing upward through a common and submerged darkness, toward light, and delivery of a shared beauty. Lotus will be on show between the 6th and 23rd of December @tacitgalleries Opening: Wednesday 06 December | 6:30–8pm Exhibition: 06–23 December | Wed–Sun 11-5pm Location: Tacit Galleries Level 1, 189 Johnston St, Collingwood --- Lotus, 2023 Wooden box with acrylic lacquer, alloy gilding and hand-dyed felt 20 x 25 x 7cm
Over the past two months, 40 artists were challenged to transform a functional, blank, lidded box into art. My work references the gloss finish of lacquerware – a method of protecting and decorating wooden objects traditional in Vietnam and East Asian countries. The image is inspired by my mother's name, which means 'lotus' in Vietnamese. The print is inlaid at different levels into the paint layers, invoking the Buddhist symbolism of a lotus plant – growing upward through a common and submerged darkness, toward light, and delivery of a shared beauty. Lotus will be on show between the 6th and 23rd of December @tacitgalleries Opening: Wednesday 06 December | 6:30–8pm Exhibition: 06–23 December | Wed–Sun 11-5pm Location: Tacit Galleries Level 1, 189 Johnston St, Collingwood --- Lotus, 2023 Wooden box with acrylic lacquer, alloy gilding and hand-dyed felt 20 x 25 x 7cm
Over the past two months, 40 artists were challenged to transform a functional, blank, lidded box into art. My work references the gloss finish of lacquerware – a method of protecting and decorating wooden objects traditional in Vietnam and East Asian countries. The image is inspired by my mother's name, which means 'lotus' in Vietnamese. The print is inlaid at different levels into the paint layers, invoking the Buddhist symbolism of a lotus plant – growing upward through a common and submerged darkness, toward light, and delivery of a shared beauty. Lotus will be on show between the 6th and 23rd of December @tacitgalleries Opening: Wednesday 06 December | 6:30–8pm Exhibition: 06–23 December | Wed–Sun 11-5pm Location: Tacit Galleries Level 1, 189 Johnston St, Collingwood --- Lotus, 2023 Wooden box with acrylic lacquer, alloy gilding and hand-dyed felt 20 x 25 x 7cm
Over the past two months, 40 artists were challenged to transform a functional, blank, lidded box into art. My work references the gloss finish of lacquerware – a method of protecting and decorating wooden objects traditional in Vietnam and East Asian countries. The image is inspired by my mother's name, which means 'lotus' in Vietnamese. The print is inlaid at different levels into the paint layers, invoking the Buddhist symbolism of a lotus plant – growing upward through a common and submerged darkness, toward light, and delivery of a shared beauty. Lotus will be on show between the 6th and 23rd of December @tacitgalleries Opening: Wednesday 06 December | 6:30–8pm Exhibition: 06–23 December | Wed–Sun 11-5pm Location: Tacit Galleries Level 1, 189 Johnston St, Collingwood --- Lotus, 2023 Wooden box with acrylic lacquer, alloy gilding and hand-dyed felt 20 x 25 x 7cm
Over the past two months, 40 artists were challenged to transform a functional, blank, lidded box into art. My work references the gloss finish of lacquerware – a method of protecting and decorating wooden objects traditional in Vietnam and East Asian countries. The image is inspired by my mother's name, which means 'lotus' in Vietnamese. The print is inlaid at different levels into the paint layers, invoking the Buddhist symbolism of a lotus plant – growing upward through a common and submerged darkness, toward light, and delivery of a shared beauty. Lotus will be on show between the 6th and 23rd of December @tacitgalleries Opening: Wednesday 06 December | 6:30–8pm Exhibition: 06–23 December | Wed–Sun 11-5pm Location: Tacit Galleries Level 1, 189 Johnston St, Collingwood --- Lotus, 2023 Wooden box with acrylic lacquer, alloy gilding and hand-dyed felt 20 x 25 x 7cm
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Over the past two months, 40 artists were challenged to transform a functional, blank, lidded box into art. My work references the gloss finish of lacquerware – a method of protecting and decorating wooden objects traditional in Vietnam and East Asian countries. The image is inspired by my mother's name, which means 'lotus' in Vietnamese. The print is inlaid at different levels into the paint layers, invoking the Buddhist symbolism of a lotus plant – growing upward through a common and submerged darkness, toward light, and delivery of a shared beauty.

Lotus will be on show between the 6th and 23rd of December @tacitgalleries

Opening:
Wednesday 06 December | 6:30–8pm

Exhibition:
06–23 December | Wed–Sun 11-5pm

Location:
Tacit Galleries
Level 1, 189 Johnston St,
Collingwood

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Lotus, 2023
Wooden box with acrylic lacquer, alloy gilding and hand-dyed felt
20 x 25 x 7cm

1 year ago
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"(blank) AND (blank) 2023, conjoined word pairs collected from 100 artists following referendum" - will form part of @daskapital_____ a screening of video works curated by @amanda_morgan_studio @argento6 and @bolakier Live screening over a few short days, so please take note of dates if you're in and around Chapel St. I'll be around early on the opening night :) Opening: Thursday 30 November 6–10pm Location: Art at the Union Bank 236 Chapel Street, Prahran, 3181 Exhibition dates: Thursday 30 November 6–10pm Friday 01 December 12–9pm Saturday 02 December 12–9pm
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"(blank) AND (blank) 2023, conjoined word pairs collected from 100 artists following referendum" – will form part of @daskapital_____ a screening of video works curated by @amanda_morgan_studio @argento6 and @bolakier

Live screening over a few short days, so please take note of dates if you're in and around Chapel St.
I'll be around early on the opening night 🙂

Opening:
Thursday 30 November 6–10pm

Location:
Art at the Union Bank
236 Chapel Street, Prahran, 3181

Exhibition dates:
Thursday 30 November 6–10pm
Friday 01 December 12–9pm
Saturday 02 December 12–9pm

1 year ago
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"(blank) AND (blank) 2023, conjoined word pairs collected from 100 artists in the week following referendum" This floating shelf, redacted laptop and text-based moving image is currently getting pieced together for Linden New Art gallery. To all word-pair contributors - from 'WAR AND PEACE' to 'DISPORT AND DISSENT' and everything in-between - Thank you.
"(blank) AND (blank) 2023, conjoined word pairs collected from 100 artists in the week following referendum" This floating shelf, redacted laptop and text-based moving image is currently getting pieced together for Linden New Art gallery. To all word-pair contributors - from 'WAR AND PEACE' to 'DISPORT AND DISSENT' and everything in-between - Thank you.
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"(blank) AND (blank) 2023, conjoined word pairs collected from 100 artists in the week following referendum"

This floating shelf, redacted laptop and text-based moving image is currently getting pieced together for Linden New Art gallery.
To all word-pair contributors – from 'WAR AND PEACE' to 'DISPORT AND DISSENT' and everything in-between – Thank you.

1 year ago
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