Louise Burston is a painter based in West Wales, UK, with a BA (first class hons), and MA in Fine Art. She taught contextual studies for ten years at Swansea College of Art and Design. Louise exhibits regularly and has shown work at Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries, Townhouse London, the Royal Academy Summer Show, RWA Bristol, The Lido Stores, Irving Gallery and has been shortlisted for BEEP painting prize twice. She has work in both private and public collections.
E: louisejburston@gmail.com
I: @louisejburston
WORK IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Commemorative Handkerchief, Silkscreen. Macclesfield Silk Museum
‘One More For the Collection’, Chichester District Museum, West Sussex
‘How Many Borders Do We Have to Cross to Reach Home?’, The Mag Collection ‘Zoo Reels’, Bristol Records Office, Bristol
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 RA Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
2025 Arcadia, Cardiff MADE, Cardiff
2025 If Heaven Falls, The Lido Stores, Margate
2025 Irving Open 2025, Irving Gallery, Oxford
2025 Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea and Aberystwyth
2024 Townhouse Open, Townhouse, London E1
2024 Swansea Open, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2023 Discerning Eye,The Mall Galleries, London SW1
2023 RWA 170th Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2023 Cardiff MADE Summer Open, Cardiff
2022 Cardiff MADE Winter Open, Cardiff
2022 BEEP http://www.beeppaintingbiennial.com
2022 Townhouse Open, Townhouse, London E1
2021 Swansea Open, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2021 Bath 116th Annual Open Exhibition, Victoria Gallery, Bath
2021 Oriel Myrddin Open, Carmarthen
2021 Townhouse Open, Townhouse, London E1
2020 ‘Ways of Protest’, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2020 RWA 168th Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2020 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2020 The Tŷ Pawb Open, Wrexham
2020 Townhouse Open, Townhouse, London E1
2019 Swansea Art Fair, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2019 RWA 167th Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2019 Swansea Open, Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea
2019 RWA Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2019 Swansea Art Fair, Elysium Gallery
2018 Swansea Open, Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea
2018 RWA Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2017 Swansea Open, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (Highly Commended)
2012 ‘Women’s Language’, Swansea School of Art, Swansea
2008 Bristol Contemporary Open, Paintworks, Bristol
2007 ‘War and Peace’ – Watershed Bristol, Big Green Gathering, Bath Film Festival
2007 Zoo Reels, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
2007 ‘An-Froo-Ka’, Bristol Zoo Gardens
2006 ‘ROOM Editions’ – ROOM TOO, Kentish Town, London
2006 ‘ROOM Editions’ – ROOM, Bristol
2006 ‘There You Are’ – Marksman Gallery, Reading
2006 ‘Zoo Reels’ – Bristol Zoo Gardens, Bristol
2005 ‘Man With Fly Whisk and Trident’ – The Otter Gallery, Chichester
2003 ‘Unpacked’ – Chichester District Museum, Chichester (Curator and Exhibitor)
2002 ‘Splash’ – Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
2002 ‘You Are Here’ – Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2001 ‘Odyssey’ – The Otter Gallery, Chichester
2000 ‘Resolution’ – Media Centre Gallery, Brighton
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Down the passage we did not take to the door we never opened, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2023 Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester, West Sussex
2013 Townhouse, London E1
2011 Macclesfield Heritage Museum, Macclesfield
2007 ‘Zoo Reels’, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
2006 ‘Zoo Reels’ – Bristol Zoological Gardens, Bristol
EDUCATION
2007 MA Fine Art, University of the West of England, Bristol
2004 BA Hons Fine Art (First Class), University of Southampton
1990 City & Guilds Photography, Chichester Tech
W Sussex
1983 Advanced Typographic Design and Print, London College of Printing, London
1981 HND in Design and Visual Communications, Northbrook College, W. Sussex
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