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James Burbidge is a British artist born in Wiltshire in 1959. A sculptor who makes enigmatic objects, he is known paricularly for his lead-covered boxed tableaux, 'like tiny universes, surreal and poetic'. He has exhibited in Britain and Europe, most recently at the Art Nuova Icona, Venice, and began to exhibit with England & Co in 1991, taking part in in several of the gallery's exhibition series Art in Boxes. He had a solo exhibition with England & Co in 1992, and has since been included in numerous gallery exhibitions such as The Map Is not the Territory iii in 2003 and Four Artists in 2005.

Burbidge's series The Way Things Are are groups of forms made using a simple system of repeated actions. These are un-named, mysterious objects 'whose function and meaning is yet to be discovered'. A group from this series was included in the 2008 exhibition at England & Co, Is there anybody out there?


Sculpture   

Nacht Blume 2003
33.75 x 23.75 x 4.5 inches
Mixed media with strontium aluminate, moon map, silicon, wax, cloth, lead, glass, MDF

Descent 2003
24 x 24 x 4 inches
Mixed media construction

Hide 1991-92
13.5 x 12.25 x 8 inches
MDF, glass, lead foil, papier mâché, air

Double Blind 1992
14 x 26.25 x 9 inches
Lead foil, enamel, glass, MDF

Private collection

Four Things 1991-92
26 x 14 x 9.5 inches
Box construction with MDF, glass, lead foil, wax, paper, brass, cloth, alumnium, late, air

Lacustrine 1991-92
14.25 x 26.25 x 9 inches
Box construction with MDF, glass, lead foil brass, papier mâché, lead sheet, cloth, air

Dissolve 1991-92
26.5 x 11.5 x 8.5 inches

Private collection

Seed 1991-92
25.5 x 11 x 8.5 inches
Box construction with MDF, glass, lead foil, map, wood, peat, air

Echo 1991
12 x 21 x 8.75 inches

Private collection

Colony 1991
16 x 13 x 8 inches
Wood, resin, treated lead foil, bitumen/rubber compound, paper map, glass, air