24 July 2020 • Mark Westall
Pro-Social Fries brings together a new body of work created over the past few months locked down in Brussels. Through sculpture, wallpaper, animation and wall-based works Jack Burton explores ideas of social identity and redistribution in his new adopted country.
17 May 2019 • Lee Sharrock
There are some tough yet critical themes running through the 58th la Biennale di Venezia. The 2019 edition is curated by Ralph Rugoff and inspired by an ancient Chinese proverb which turned out to be a fallacy. Very appropriate for the unsettled times we are living through, where global economic disparity, alternative facts, migration and accelerated global warming are some of the most urgent topics concerning humanity and its future.
22 November 2018 • Mark Westall
Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the South London Gallery for the first time since 1999. Guest selectors Benedict Drew, Katy Moran (New Contemporaries alumni 2006) and Keith Piper (New Contemporaries alumni 1986) have chosen 57 artists for the annual open submission touring exhibition
31 August 2018 • Mark Westall
“Emotional Paintings about Economics” is a solo exhibition by Jack Burton. Burton’s practice considers the vertigo inherent in the all-encompassing, top-down view of macroeconomics, a system which tries to model economies on a national and global level in order to inform policy and, by extension, behaviour.
