Key Works

Saltire

With the Saltire collection Gerard M Burns uses his national flag to explore ideas of nationhood and identity, always within the context of pilgrimage or journey.

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Ballet

Burns' Ballet

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Balancing Act & Money

An allegory on the precariousness of modern living.

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Rain and the City

A collection of works in which Gerard M Burns' home city of Glasgow features prominently.

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Religious Works

The road to Emmaus

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Winter

Snow and the backdrop of snow symbolically represents purity and in many Pictish texts suggests a landscape of the mind. In Burns’ work figures are placed within this context deliberately to invoke in us an emotional response.

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Mythology

Symbols feature heavily in the work of Gerard M Burns - in this collection we present the most prominent of these.

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Portraits

Ask Gerard M Burns to define himself as an artist and he will say he is a painter of people. Its no surprise therefore that portraiture would form a major part of his overall artistic output.

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Angels

The theme of angels has been in Burns’s work for a very long time. in this section some of the strongest examples are shown.

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