Nicholas Burry

B. 1997

Red Rocks (Come In Under The Shadow Of This Red Rock), 2024, oil on canvas, 1050 x 1400 mm $6800

Luncheon, 2024, oil on canvas in charred rimu frame, 800 x 1050 mm $5800

Horse Of Troy, 2024, oil on rimu panel, 290 x 385 mm $2200

Dreaming, Sleeping, Eating 2024, oil on rimu panel, 190 x 235 mm $1600

Unit, 2024, oil on rimu panel, 115 x 150 mm $800

Robe Of Skin, 2024, oil on Georgian wire glass, 235 x 170 mm $1400

Figure In A Hole, 2024, oil on board, 300 x 150 mm $1800

Formations 2024, Georgian wire glass, photographic collage, ink, graphite on paper, 190 x 170 mm $400

Artist Biography

Painter Nicholas Burry was born in Ōtautahi Christchurch, in 1997. He was inspired to paint by his grandfather, a fellow artist, and is largely self-taught. After working for a number of years in Te Whanganui-a-Tara after high school, he has since returned to live in Ōtautahi.

Burry has committed to an independent studio practice creating representational oils, acknowledging traditional notions of form and colour, but not bound by them. His work is primarily concerned with humanity and empathy – what it is to know someone and have a sense of their life. Materiality is a cornerstone of Burry’s practice, both conceptually, with a strong consideration for his subject’s relationship to their environment, and physically, with his desire to explore beyond the restrictions of painting on traditional canvas. Burry has presented paintings on circular wooden board, stepped wooden panels, woven paper, and wired safety glass. He also makes his own frames, as a way to maintain a sense of authorship throughout the creative process. His frames have their own sense of agency, existing in conversation with the works, as opposed to merely housing them.

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Group Exhibitions