Doug Burton MRSS

Working as both a multidisciplinary artist and educator has given me the opportunity to evolve my practice and understanding of contemporary sculpture. I make my work from my studio on the North Devon coast, exploring this place, its geomorphology and history, continues to influence my ideas. My role as programme leader for BA (Hons) Creative Arts at the Open College of the Arts, the distance learning arm of the University for the Creative Arts, has given me the opportunity to further my research and understanding of contemporary sculpture as part of an expanded field.

My work responds to how a process of making can describe a morphology of matter-information as an ebb and flow of forces impacting the work, using events as a starting point from the past and finding their way to the present. I examine how structures evolve, divide and stratify, opening a continuum that places us within the time/matter stream.