Simon Burton was born in Yorkshire, England in 1973 and received a first class bachelor's degree at the University of Brighton in 1995, before completing his MA in 1997 at the Royal College of Art. Described by Lucian Freud in 1997 as, "the most promising young artist in Britain today," Burton received the Birtle prize for painting (1995), a travel award to ARCO studios in Lisbon, Portugal (1996), The John Minton Travel award (1996), The Jenny Hall Scholarship (1996) and worked in the USA under the patronage of Robert and Susan Kasen-Summer (1997-1998).
Burton's work is described as "figurative painting that treads a line between classical, abstraction and magic realism" being "heavily layered both physically and with art historical references".
Selected solo exhibitions 2013 – One year later, York College Gallery, York, England 2012 – Between Cave and Gate, ARTARY Gallery, Stuttgart 2011 –Nowhere Men, Arch 402 Gallery, London 2010 – Black Swan, Blue Woman, Huddersfield Museum 2007 – Under the Sign of Saturn Kookmin Gallery, Seoul
Selected group exhibitions 2017 – Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK 2016 – Paper Cuts, Transition Gallery, London 2016 – March, James Freeman Gallery, London 2016 – Selected works from the Priseman Seabrook Collection, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, England 2015 – Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, China 2015 – Neiland's Choice, GX Gallery, London 2014 – Opinion Makers 2, Curated by Lubomirov-Easton, Londonewcastle Project Space, London 2014 – Enclosures, Elsewhere at the Lion and Lamb Gallery 2014 – Some of My Colours at the Eagle Gallery 2014 – About Face Swindon Museum and Art Gallery 2011 – A Sort of Night to the Mind, ARTARY Gallery, Stuttgart
Selected collections The Aldrich Collection, University of Brighton, England The Louis-Dreyfus Collection, USA Falmouth Art Gallery, England The Priseman Seabrook Collection, UK
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, England Royal College of Art, London
References
External links Simon Burton official website Contemporary British Painting