'Beautiful Again'
[Perpetuating the Myth of Paradise]
J.T. Burke
28th August - 4th October
'Paradise is a myth. It's a concoction of our own devices created to comfort us from the rigours of daily life and the sorrows of the human condition. Paradise gives us hope for something meaningful beyond this mortal life. It's a beautiful myth. So beautiful and emotionally powerful that even knowing it's a myth only slightly diminishes its value.'
'My images perpetuate the myth. Using old costume jewellery as my building blocks I create visions of a re manufactured utopia. I find these discarded pieces at swap meets and yard sales and conjure them into new images of life in ebullient and glorifies dorms. They dance and soar in front of me in harmonic expressions of trinket afterlife joy. A big, blingy, bijou Shangri-La.
The Myth of Paradise realised.'
J T Burke
The Grant bradley Gallery will be the third stop for Jeff Burke's seminal show. Beautiful Again will be coming to Bristol after two shows; The Brooks institute, California, and The Hotel Del Arte, Barcelona.
For More info on Jeff, check out his blog: burketriolo.blogspot.com
Read the write up of his works on the Huffington Post blog.
