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JOSHUA BURROWES THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS 12 OCTOBER – 2 NOVEMBER 2019 Allow me to cast light upon a series of mundane objects - objects often over-looked and under-seen. Here are trivial artefacts that guide the everyday, Sisyphean tasks of our existence - the seemingly pointless and repetitive rituals that weave the fabric of our lives. I’m drawn to the melodrama of monochrome. I like that it can make a shower cap appear serious and austere or imbue a pair of rubber gloves with pathos and piety. Monochrome creates a different dialogue of the ordinary. This body of work reflects my relationship with the absurdity found in the everyday. Because life is made up of Monday mornings, milk and muesli. Amongst the monotony, you can either laugh or cry; Absurdism is choosing to laugh, and to accept that none of this has any intrinsic meaning. Here are icons of the ordinary, inviting you to embellish them with significance.
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JOSHUA BURROWES
THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS12 OCTOBER – 2 NOVEMBER 2019
Allow me to cast light upon a series of mundane objects - objects often over-looked and under-seen. Here are trivial artefacts that guide the everyday, Sisyphean tasks of our existence - the seemingly pointless and repetitive rituals that weave the fabric of our lives.
I’m drawn to the melodrama of monochrome. I like that it can make a shower cap appear serious and austere or imbue a pair of rubber gloves with pathos and piety. Monochrome creates a different dialogue of the ordinary.
This body of work reflects my relationship with the absurdity found in the everyday. Because life is made up of Monday mornings, milk and muesli. Amongst the monotony, you can either laugh or cry; Absurdism is choosing to laugh, and to accept that none of this has any intrinsic meaning.
Here are icons of the ordinary, inviting you to embellish them with significance.
Oh Peter!2019oil on linen41 x 41 cm SOLD
Ministry of Peace2019oil on linen41 x 41 cm SOLD
Cereal Killer2019oil on linen41 x 41 cm SOLD
Death Grip2019oil on linen41 x 41 cm $1,800
Sticky Icky2019oil on linen41 x 41 cm SOLD
A Single Monk2019oil on linen51 x 41 cm SOLD
“Mood”2019oil on linen51 x 41 cm SOLD
Rub-a-dub2019oil on linen51 x 41 cm SOLD
Madonna2019oil on linen41 x 51 cm $2,200
Polka Dots and Moonbeams2019oil on linen76 x 66 cm SOLD
Sour Wormhole2019oil on linen84 x 96 cm SOLD
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CV
Joshua Burrowes is a realist painter who captivates through technique and narrative, intensity and wry wit. His works dance between the conscious and the subconscious minds, the grotesque and the ethereal, the real and the absurd.
Josh’s latest collection is an invitation to reimagine the mundane. By juxtaposing banal objects, he creates haunting, unconventional still life paintings that hint at humour and horror.
Exhibitions
Red GalleryJiggery Pokery Solo Exhibition, 2018
Off the KerbWinter Days Group Exhibition, 2018
Tacit GalleriesExquisite Palette Show, 2018
Red GalleryRed Stocking Group Exhibition, 2017, 2018
Red GalleryGraeme Hildebrand Art Prize Group Exhibition, 2017
Elam School of Fine ArtHonours Graduate Exhibition, 2012
Art With Love, Fundraiser 2007
Awards
Graeme Hildebrand Art Prize 2017 - Body of Work, 3rd Prize
Education
Bachelor Degree of Fine Art with Honours. Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland, New Zealand
