Stephen Burke GBA

Stephen Burke is an Irish artist and curator working between Dublin and Glasgow. He graduated with an MA in painting from the Glasgow School of Art in 2018. He is a recipient of the Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, was nominated for the Ingram Prize in 2023 and recently completed a large scale sculptural piece for the UNESCO heritage site Volklingen Ironworks in Germany. Stephen is the founder of the social media platform Post Vandalism which explores the aesthetics and concepts of graffiti, protest and resistance and fosters support from a wide international community. This project inspired the most recent edition of Kunstforum International, the most renouned specialist journal for contemporary art in Germany. Burke also co-founded the London based curatorial collective Pigeon Park, which organizes exhibitions in industrial spaces. This project was created in response to the post-pandemic threat posed to artists’ working conditions in the wake of the Covid crisis.