Right now we are waiting for new Gerard Burns Art to arrive at the gallery. In the meantime, below is a selection of the artist's archived art work which has featured at Red Rag Art Gallery. If you wish to register to receive updates and alerts when new art work from Gerard Burns arrives let us know in the red box.
Gerard Burns was born in Scotland in 1961. He studied contemporary art at the Read more
artist and paintings">Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1983.
Gerard Burns first career in the Arts was as a professional singer, guitarist and songwriter. After this Burns spent ten years as a Scottish art teacher, before as he jokes ' I gave it up to risk full time poverty and starvation as a artist'.
Gerard Burns has been a full time artist since 1998. Today his oil paintings display a very distinctive style, skillfully blending the traditional with a contemporary representation.
Gerard Burns determination to do things his way paid off in significantly in 2003 when he won the coveted Not The Turner Prize. Burns painting of a young girl leading a white bull was selected from hundreds of other British artist submissions as the winning painting with a £20.000 first prize.
Gerard Burns has widely exhibited at a number of other leading contemporary British Modern art galleries including the Royal Glasgow Institute where he was a prize winner in 1997. Gerard Burns paintings are held by a number of private and corporate collectors of contemporary art including actor Ewan McGregor.
In addition to Red Rag Scottish Art Gallery Gerard Burns has exhibited at other leading Scottish Art Galleries including the Royal Glasgow Institute where he was a prize winner in 1997. He also shows at a number of other leading contemporary British Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Gerard Burns artist studio and like all Red Rag Scottish art and Contemporary art it can be shipped worldwide.
