Jemima Burrill
Jemima Burrill is an artist, and filmmaker. Through a variety of media, Burrill’s work aims to reveal predisposed boundaries of the domestic space, elevating the mundane into the significant. With a self-reflective intention, Jemima Burrill describe her constant preoccupation with inappropriate behaviour, sometimes humourous, sometimes disturbing; always trying to push the boundaries of her environments using a solitary protagonist. Her videos have been shown internationally including at the Museum of Modern Art in Lyon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Florence Lynch Gallery, New York; and in various shows with the Pacific Design Centre, LA and her performances have infiltrated the Barbican, Ace Hotel,
the Freud Museum, and Up Project’s Floating Cinema. What connects her visually disparate work is a meticulous study of human relationships, especially woman’s ability to create their own worlds. She shows with Galerie Houg, Paris, and had her fourth solo show there in 2016.
Burrill studied at Chelsea School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art in the sculpture departments. “Jemima Burrill’s work attends to notions of positioning within what are often clearly defined public or private spaces. These places are miniature theatres, stage-sets for activities which may at first sight appear mundane but soon turn out to be somewhat at odds with conventional behavioural mores.” Peter Suchin.
