Narratives of Location

About

Judith Burrows is a photographer, filmmaker and painter. She has won awards, had screenings against the National Theatre exterior, Queen Elizabeth Hall interior, at festivals worldwide, and been commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery and Capital Radio, among others. Her work is regularly featured in fRoots magazine.

This exhibition features large scale paintings inspired by the locations which Judith sources for her photographic and film portraits of musicians including the photo-shoot for June Tabor’s album Ashore in Deal, Oysterband’s album Meet You There in Dungeness and a shoot for Billy Bragg in Hoxton. Worked over with gouache, oils, abstract mono-printed textures, music score, and text, the paintings generate out from the confinements of the large stretched canvasses. The result is a multitude of dramatic narratives in one single image.

Judith’s research at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) at Cecil Sharp House has included archived music score, lyrics and most recently, folk dance illustrations for a hanging sculpture created with fellow artist Christine Poskitt, which will be included in the exhibition. A selection of Judith’s photographic portraits of musicians will hang alongside the canvasses, as well as sketches and notes taken for shoots.