Southern Circles

David Burrows

The Work

This artwork depicts two apples — one red, one green — set against a dark ground in flat, confident blocks of colour. There is something fresh and joyful about it; it is a simple subject handled with real economy, and it has never stopped pleasing me.

Medium: Screen print
Edition: 1 of 23, signed in pencil
Image size: 365 mm x 575 mm
Framed size: 655 mm x 885 mm
Catalogue: 0005

Provenance

I purchased this piece from an Impress Printmakers exhibition in Brisbane, likely around 2013–2014, not long after opening ARTIS PURA. Like many framers, I collected the work and it sat in a drawer for many years before I finally got around to framing it. When I did, it felt wonderful to see it come to life and take its place in the home.

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Framing

The artwork is framed in a simple Australian oak frame stained black, with an eight-ply mount and UltraView conservation glass. The framing protects the print and gives it a clean, modern aesthetic that complements the subject matter and fits cohesively with the other apple-themed works in the space.

About David Burrows

David Burrows is a Brisbane-based printmaker who came to screen printing from a background in photography, printing and graphic arts. He is associated with Impress Printmakers, the Brisbane collective that promotes original prints and collaboration between print artists.

He works in limited-edition silk screen, and the debt to Japanese woodblock printing is explicit in the work — the compositional principles, and the use of a black key block to hold a design together. His method is deliberately hybrid: he draws and builds the image on screen, adding texture and tonality digitally, then prepares registered film positives from it. Everything after that is done by hand — colour by colour, screen by screen, sheet by sheet, using photo stencils alongside traditional techniques including bokashi for blending one colour into another. He describes the process himself as half human, half machine.