Private Rented Property Licensing (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
2026, pencil & acrylic gesso on collage, 21 x 30 cm

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Luke Burton (b.1983, London) lives and works in London. 

The concept of ambivalence - specifically how this plays out in the political and aesthetic spheres - is central to Burton's expanded painting practice. Portraits of senior Civil Servants are frequently deployed as a symbol of political ambivalence while contrasting stylistic registers suggest equivocation within the aesthetic realm.

He has exhibited at ICA, London; Turner Contemporary, Margate; National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; PADA, Lisbon; Bosse and Baum Gallery, London; TJ Boulting Gallery, London; and Union Gallery, London 

In 2019-20, Burton was Artist-in-residence and Visiting Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge and in 2023, he received the Abbey Fellowship in Painting at the British School at Rome. 

Listen to Philip Guston with Luke Burton, a 2023 episode of Garageland Salon podcast.

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