Dr. Rob Burton is a visual artist, critical thinker and academic who explores themes of memory, loss and transformation through mixed media, fabric and printmaking that often utilise found objects integrated with innovations in analogue techniques and digital technologies. His works capture an essence of memory coalescing with imagination in the nostalgia of memory and longing often portraying people, place and spaces in textual textile narratives. He graduated in Fashion and Textiles at Liverpool Polytechnic in 1987 before completing his Master’s degree in Textile Design in 1989. Rob has recently been awarded a Phd for his practice-based textile art investigation ‘An Exploration of Trace, memory and Post Memory through Making, Meaning and Materiality’. Rob has recently exhibited internationally in group exhibitions, biennials and triennials in the USA, Eastern Europe and the UK. Artworks are currently being shown in exhibitions curated by the Argentine Centre for textile Arts and in the ‘Per Filo E Per Segno’ exhibition at the Fabbrica della Ruota, Biella, Italy.
Since 2014 Rob has regularly collaborated with international screendance company WECreate who specialise in site-specific interdisciplinary works inspired by their shared fascination of extreme landscapes, place, and narratives of sites. Our journeys encompass urban and rural landscapes, seeking to discover the unseen, the in-betweenness and the things that are in transformation.
Rob’s current projects brings together digital and traditional screen practices in the investigation of the literary enchantment of magical realism and nostalgic narrative in large scale textile hangings.
International Exchange Exhibition 2022 – A Dazzling Sight
Yeonje Cultural Center,
Busan,
Korea
Sponsored by Busan Metropolitan City & Busan Cultural Foundation
17th - 23rd August, 2022
Invited to exhibit - Artwork: Reflections on the Beauty of Life
D31 SUMMER EXHIBITION,
13 Scot Lane,
Doncaster.
1st July - 30th August 2022
Artworks exhibited: Remedios the Beauty/ Daughter of the Moon
14th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE ART 'SCYTHIA'
Ivano Frankivs'k,, Ukraine
1st - 15th June 2022
Artwork Selected: Alice Blue Gown
2021 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF COLOR AND FORM (KSCF)
Korean Institute of Science Technology Design
Tongmyong University Gallery/ Online Exhibition
Busan, Korea
08 – 11 November 2021
Artwork selected: Remedios The Beauty
‘PER FILO E PER SEGNO’ EXHIBITION
Selected Group Exhibition
Fabbrica della Ruota,
Biella,
Italy
06 June – 01 October 2021
Artwork selected: Hauntology: Mourning Shirt and What Memories Re-Member Memories: The Wedding Dress
14TH MINI TEXTILES COMPETITION
Organised by the Argentine Centre of Textile Arts
Work Selected for Online Exhibition
January 2021
http://www.caat.org.ar/docs/2021-Minitextil-CAT%C3%81LOGO.pdf
Artwork Selected: Love Leaves A Memory No One Can Steal (Part 2)
MIXED SHOW ‘PRINT-IT’
Aire Place Studios
Leeds
LS3 1JL
From 20th January 2021
Work selected for Online International Exhibition
Artwork selected: Assemblages: Virus Corrosion
https://www.aireplacestudios.com/exhibit/rob-burton/
‘FROM LAUSANNE TO BEIJING’ THE XI INTERNATIONAL FIBER ART BIENNALE
From 16th January 2021 – 16th February 2021
Work selected for Online International Exhibition
Artwork selected: Vestiges: Archived Lyviv 2019
5TH EDITION OF THE TEXTILE ART INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL TEXPOART - DREAM.
1st – 20th December 2020
“Victoria" and "Theodor Pallady" Art Galleries Iași, Romania.
Artwork selected: The Mourning Shirt (2020)
2020 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF COLOR AND FORM(KSCF)
November 10-14, 2020
Tongmyong University Gallery/ Online Exhibition
Artwork selected: Vestiges: Archived Lyviv 2019
THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF FIBRE ART “SCYTHIA”
August 6-18, 2020
Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine
Artwork selected: Vestiges: Archived Lyviv 2019
The 2ND INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF MINI-TEXTILE “TREASURE ISLAND. CITY”
6th March 2020 – 5th April 2020
The Ioann Ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress (the State Museum of History of St.Petersburg
St Petersburg,
Russia
2 works selected for international group exhibition
11TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF TEXTILE MINIATURES “MEASURE”
Curator Žydrė Ridulytė
12th November – 4th December, 2019
Art Gallery "Arka",
Aušros Vartų str.7,
LT-01304 Vilnius,
Lithuania.
MATERIAL MEMORIES (Solo Exhibition)
11th September - 2nd October 2019
Contemporary Art Gallery
Ivano-Frankivs’k
Ukraine
VIDEO TEXTILE ART SALON
8th WTA International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art - Sustainable City - Madrid 2019
17th September 2019.
El Centro Arte Complutense,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid UCM
Artwork selected: WECreate Spaces
SCYTHIA MINI TEXTILE ART
The 9th international exhibition
6th – 21st June 2019
Ivano-Frankivs’k
Ukraine
INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE ART BIENNIAL 2019
22nd March 2019 – 31st March 2019
Kunststichting Perspektief vzw
Gemeenschapscentrum Den Breughel (Cultural Community center)
Haachst
Belgium
Artwork selected: ‘Doris Hainsworth nee Wilson’ from Powerful Whispers Project
'POWER WHISPERS' SOLO EXHIBITION
19th March - 6th April 2019
Artiflex Galerija
Vilnius Academy of Arts
Vilnius
Lithuania
10TH ‘FROM LAUSANNE TO BEIJING’ INTERNATIONAL FIBER ART BIENNALE EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM
15th October - 15th November 2018.
Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University ,
Tsinghua University Art Museum,
Beijing,
China
Artwork selected: ‘Bird Poetry’
ANA BAER CASTILLO
ESPACIOS LATENTES/ LATENT SPACES
24th October - 16th November 2018
Texas State Galleries
USA
WECREATESPACES - Screendance Performance
14th October 2018
Texas Sate University
San Marcos
USA
Screendance video selected for:
27th Quinzena de Dança de Almada – International Dance Festival. Video Dance Showcase Portugal 21stSeptember – 13thOctober 2019
8th Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Video Art Salon, Madrid 17th September - 3rd November 2019
5TH TEXTILE ART OF TODAY TRIENNIAL
8th September 2018 – 11th November 2018 Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum (Slovak Republic)
25th January 2019 – 16th March 2019 Tatra Gallery, Poprad (Slovak Republic)
18th April 2019 – 23rd June 2019 The Moravian Museum, Uherske Hradiste (Czech Republic)
12TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE ART ‘SCYTHIA’
International Biennial Textile Art Exhibition and Conference,
29th May 2018 – 15th June 2018
Ivano-Frankivs’k,
Ukraine
YORK OPEN STUDIOS
13th April 17, 2018 – 22nd April 17, 2018
Rogues Atelier
28 Fossgate
York
MATERIAL IMAGINATION (Solo Exhibition)
13th April 2018 – 20th June 2018
The New School House Gallery
Peasholm Green
York
A GENEROUS KINGDOM 2
2nd December 2017 – 16th January 2018
Verum Ultimum Art Gallery
Portland Oregan
USA
THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF TEXTILE MINIATURES ‘ETHNO’
14th November 2017 – 9th December 2017
Art Gallery ‘Arka’
Ausros Vartu str.7
LT-01304 Vilnius
Lithuania
CHASING GHOSTS 2
28th October 2017 – 18th November 2017
Verum Ultimum Art Gallery
Portland Oregan
USA
THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF TEXTILE ART ‘FIBREMEN’
24th October – 7th November 2017
Ivano Frankivs’k
Ukraine
THE WILDERNESS PROJECT
Costumes created for screendance performance
Collaboration between Ana Baer Carrillo, Heike Salzer, Rob Burton, Richard Hall and Michelle Briegel Nance
Directed by Ana Baer, Heike Salzer
Produced by WECreateProductions
Choreography by Heike Salzer, Michelle Nance
Featuring WECreateProductions
Dancing by Heike Salzer/Michelle Nance
Music by Richard Hall
Cinematography by Ana Baer
Edited by Ana Baer, Heike Salzer
Inspired by the lushness of the North Yorkshire Moors, "Wild-er-ness” is a blend of site specific and site adaptive material, intimately woven into a multidisciplinary performance in the intersection of dance, video, music and fashion design.
Two costumes created for the dancers Heike Salzer and Michelle Briegel Nance
SANS SOUCI FESTIVAL OF DANCE CINEMA
Saturday 23rdSeptember 2017
Irey Theater
Theatre and Dance Building, 1595 Pleasant St., University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
MERGE DANCE COMPANY'S CONCERT "RESILIENT"
March 1-3, 2018
Harrison Theatre, SMTX, USA.
Screendance selected for:
Seyr Festival, Tehran, Iran 27th Feb - 1st Mar 2019
Cine-Corps Festival, Theatre National de Bretagne, Rennes, France 3rd March, 2019 https://cine-corps.com/rennes/
Dance Days 9 Chania, Crete, Greece July 2019
2019 Topanga Film Festival, Dance Film Showcase, USA 12th - 14th July 2019
Corpo e Câmera: Composição Coreográfica na Viodedança at SESC Campinas, Brazil 02/07/2019 – 05/07/2019
DANCE SHORTS ON FILM Monday 22 July, 2019 6:00pm - 7:30pm The Depot Lewes Sussex
THE BATH OPEN ART PRIZE 2017
27th May 2017 - 11th June 2017
FaB at 44AD Artspace,
4 Abbey Street
BA1 1NN
www.44ad.net
WEARABLE EXPRESSIONS 7th International Juried Exhibition
EXHIBITION DATES: 10th February – 16th April, 2017
PREVIEW: 4thFebruary , 2017
Palos Verdes Arts Center
Los Angeles
California
USA
http://www.wearableexpressions.com
OBJECTS TO TOUCH 2
11th November 2016 – 07th January 2017
Janina Monkute-Marks museum
J.Basanaviciaus str. 45,
LT-57182 Kedainiai, Lithuania
tel. +370 347 57398
fax. +370 347 60270
cell. +370 675 88931
e-mail: galerija@jmm-muziejus.lt
3D FIBER SCULPTURE – WHAT IS FIBER?
8th July, 2016 - 10th September 2016
Janina Monkute-Marks museum
J.Basanaviciaus str. 45,
LT-57182 Kedainiai, Lithuania
tel. +370 347 57398
fax. +370 347 60270
cell. +370 675 88931
e-mail: galerija@jmm-muziejus.lt
THE GIFT PROJECT
Collaborative project with work by 13 artists curated and organized by Rob Burton
Constantine Gallery Teesside University 1st April – 25th April 2016
Kherson Local Lore Museum, main building st. Soborna, 9 Kherson Ukraine 15th June 2016 – 26th June 2016
Paper presented to Contextile, Textile Talks, Guimares, Portugal –31st July 2016
Edition 2 The Gift Project Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Küçükçamlıca Acıbadem 34660 Kadıköy / İstanbul 4thApril 2017 – 20thApril 2017
‘TEXTILE ART OF TODAY’
Collaboration with Dave Allinson, Michelle Tripp and Sarah O’Brien
Triennial of textile without borders
Touring exhibition 2015 -2017
BRATISLAVA 9. - 12. 2015 (SK)
POPRAD 2.- 3. 2016 (SK)
BIELSKO-BIAŁA 5 - 8. 2016 (PL)
GYŐR 9.- 10. 2016 (HU)
UHERSKÉ HRADIŠTĚ 11. 2016 - 1. 2017 (CZ)
POPRAD 2.- 3. 2016 (SK)
BIELSKO-BIAŁA 5 - 8. 2016 (PL)
GYŐR 9.- 10. 2016 (HU)
UHERSKÉ HRADIŠTĚ 11. 2016 - 1. 2017 (CZ)
CONFERENCE PAPERS/ PRESENTATIONS/ JOURNALS
WeCreate Spaces
Cuerpo Academico De Artes Escenicas
La Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hildago
Morelio,
Mexico
1st – 4th September 2020
Fashion Colloquia 2020
Arch College of Design & Business
9, Govind Marg, Malviya Nagar Institutional Area
Jaipur 302017
India
28th - 30th January 2020
A Poetics of Clothing for an Object – Orientated Material Culture: My Grandad Shirt in a Wardrobe full of Stories.
2nd International Textile Design Conference 2019 DTEX Textiles, Identity and Innovation
Faculty of Architecture
University of Lisbon
19th - 21st June 2019
Tents, Beds and Clothing: The Evocative Objects of Contemporary Art Textiles
DCDC18: Memory and Transformation
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities
The National Archives and Research Libraries UK
19th - 21st November 2018
Paper accepted for Presentation: Powerful Whispers Project
7th Euroacademia International Conference ‘Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities’
14th - 15th June 2018
Lucca, Italy.
Paper: The Powerful Whispers Project: A box of family photographs as an archival site of pot-memory and the ‘trace
Life on the Outskirts Symposium: inspiration and interventions in small archives
Manchester School of Art,
Manchester Metropolitan University
9th February 2018
The Gift Project
‘Scythia 11’International Textile Art Symposium, Ukraine, June 2016
Contextile, Textile Talks, Guimares, Portugal – 31st July 2016
Burton.R, Chepelyuk.E 2015 ‘The Impact of Traditional Embroidery and Stitch Techniques on Contemporary Art Practice’in ХУДОЖНІЙ АВАНГАРД: ПОШУК НОВОЇ МИСТЕЦЬКОЇ ПАРАДИГМИ
Матеріали І Міжнародної науково-практичної конференції
8 – 10 квітня 2015 р.
Херсон (Conference proceedings)
ББК 85
УДК 7.036
ISBN 978-617-7243-88-4
5th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies
The University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh
UK
10th – 12th June 2015
Conference Paper Session Presentation:
'Documents from the Palpable Street'
‘SCYTHIA 9’ International Textile Art Symposium, Kherson,Ukraine
19th June, 2012 – 25th June 2012
Presentation: ‘The Rules of Earthly Wisdom: A multimedia textile art collaborative project’
6th– 8th July 2011
EVA London 2011
BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT,
London
6th– 8th July 2011
Peer reviewed paper presented to conference:
Kiki Salon Presents…A Journey into Conceptual Brand and Product development utilising Social Networking and New Media to Analyse Issues of Diversity, Authenticity and Collaborative Practices in Art and Design.