Chris Burton

@christopherzburton

Chris Burton is a graphic artist who works across drawing and printmaking, his works are concerned with the personal interactions with provisional urban landscapes and architecture. Printmaking is used to represent the temporality of different urban spaces. Drawing is employed as a structured response expressing architectural elements such as columns or building framework. The emphasis is on understanding the connections with place and how it is navigated when it is in a perpetual state of transition.

Urban spaces are inherently provisional landscapes, constantly evolving and redeveloping. Within these urban spaces, abandoned buildings stand as poignant symbols of transition. The voids left by these relics prompt introspection and curiosity about their past lives and the eventual toll of their redevelopment. As we navigate these spaces, the presence of these relics serves as a reminder of the impermanence of structures and the malleability of urban identity.

This is reflected in Eagle Express by the use of a personal archive image of a building in Marrickville that has been demolished. Layering is used between toner transfer, negative space and abstract drawing. More subtle themes of layering can also be observed in drawing strokes which appear to mimic the printing process. Layering techniques are used to reflect the seemingly constant overlap between demolition and construction within the urban Sydney landscape.