Design and Art Australia Online

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Newcastle Gallery exhibition archive; http://www.newcastle.edu.au/discipline/fine-art/exhibits/ianburns.html (06/09/03)

The exhibition comprises of posters created at the Tin Sheds Art Workshop, University of Sydney. Organised by Monash University Gallery. The late Ian Burn was an internationally renowned conceptual artist. The exhibition of 40 works present the artist’s contemporary practice, its diversity and its relationship to his formative, figurative and later conceptual work and his international association with Art & Language.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/exhibitions/archive/1998.html; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Artists think: the late works of Ian Burn, Sydney: Power Publications in association with MUMA, 1996
119 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.; ISBN 0 7326 0658 6

The 1968 exhibition was curated in 1995 by Michael Desmond and Christine Dixon and was drawn entirely from the National Gallery of Australia’s collection.
It celebrates the time of change, in the two years on either side of 1968 – a time of political and social unrest, when art and life combined to stretch barriers.
The exhibition integrated both popular and avant garde works from Australian artists, designers and news photographers with those from the USA and UK. The resulting exhibition showed the energy and strength of the young Australian artists of this generation.

Organised by AGWA and toured to MUMA, AGNSW and the Plimsoll Gallery. The exhibition showed how Australian artist Ian Burn participated in a range of ideas and aesthetic issues of the period 1956-1970, including a group of minimal paintings and objects produced in London between 1965 and 1967, followed by a considerable body of conceptual work produced mainly in New York between 1967 and 1970 for the Festival of Perth 1992 – the Myer Festival.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report; AGNSW archive index cards; State Library of Victoria catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Ian Burn: minimal-conceptual work, 1965-1970. Perth, WA: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1992.
104p: ill (some col) ; 22cm

Ian Burn, a talk on the context of art, challenging the concept of 'free and neutral’ artworks

Curated by Terry Smith and Donald Brook, The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art, was a survey exhibition of conceptual and experimental works in Australia, sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) held at Central Street. David Aspden’s work listed in the catalogue was replaced by a work by James Doolin in the exhibition itself.