About

Stu Burke is an artist, curator, researcher and writer based in Sheffield. He is co-director of GLOAM Gallery, Curatorial Ethics Network (CEN) member, and benefactor of the Roland Orépük association for non-objective art (Aropano).

Through playful enquiry, his practice explores the limitations of what painting and sculpture can be, often working between the two, to incite a dialogue between colour, space, material and shape. This process is organic and largely experimental, giving way to chance, and unexpected outcomes. The works often posses a temporality and honesty as evident in the marks, rips, holes, lines, cracks, stains and scars.

Education
PhD in Art and Curation (Practice-Led), Leeds Beckett University, 2023-26
MA in Fine Art, Teesside University, 2016
BA(Hons) in Fine Art, University of Lincoln, 2013

Selected Exhibitions:
Beyond / Au-delá Istanbul Satellite Event 1, Istanbul, Turkey, 2025
Falling to the Forest Floor, White Column, Leeds, UK, 2025
GLOAM x free house, Grand Union, Birmingham, UK, 2025
Colour Play, General Practice, Lincoln, 2025
Momentary Sculptures, GLOAM Gallery, Sheffield, 2025
A Bell is a Cup, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, 2025

Salon #1, Studio 46, Bloc Studios, Sheffield, 2024
Xmas Classic Singles, White Column, Leeds, 2023
If It Thunders on All Fool's Day, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, 2023
GLOAM, Two Queens, Leicester, UK, 2023
Fallow, General Practice, Lincoln, UK, 2021
COVIMETRY, BWA Gallery, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, Poland, 2020
As Per Usual, GLOAM Gallery, Sheffield, UK, 2020*
No#1 Biennale of International Reductive and Non Objective Art > Sydney, Stores Building, Parramatta, AUS, 2019
No#5 Biennale Internationale D'art Non Objectif, Moulins de Villancourt, Pont de Claix, FRA, 2019
New Modern - RNOP Melbourne - The Road Paintings, Five Walls, Melbourne, AUS, 2019
Training Montage, Pineapple Black Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK, 2019
Unfinished Business, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle, UK, 2019
All the World is a Stage, Left Bank, Leeds, UK, 2019
Godfather Too, Pineapple Black Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK, 2019
A Hatching, Middlesborough Art Weekender, Middlesborough, UK, 2018
A New Dialogue, Gallery FRANK, Littleborough, UK, 2018
New Modern, Saturation Point, London, UK, 2017
Yellow Belly, PSP Gallery, Lincoln, UK, 2017
Midpointness, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent, UK, 2016: Transart Triennial
Delicious Edge, Middlesbrough Tower, Middlesbrough, 2016
Hōme-lab, General Practice, Lincoln, 2016
Juncture, Waterhouse Gallery, Middlesborough, 2015
Taste, Constantine Gallery, Middlesborough, 2015
Candle and Bell, Creative Arts Hub, Mirfield, 2015
Create, MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Middlesborough, 2015
On the Sticks, The House of Blah Blah, Middlesborough, 2015
A Given Structure, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, 2014
Eulogy, VANE Gallery, Newcastle, 2014
Deep Philosophical Thoughts Stole My Bike, Greestone Gallery, Lincoln, 2013
Entropic Ongo Bongo, Tithe Barn, Lincoln, 2013
Elevation to a Crash Pad, The Monks Gallery, Lincoln, UK, 2012
Cupboard Love XXX, Greyfriar Studios, Lincoln, UK, 2012
How Soon Is Now, Stokes Coffee Warehouse, Mint Lane, Lincoln, UK, 2012
UNFUNCTIONAL FORMS: a shape of impracticality , Greestone Gallery, Lincoln, UK, 2012*
Four Annoying Habits, Greestone Gallery, Lincoln, UK, 2011