Background
Ian Burn was born on December 29, 1939, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Ian Burn was born on December 29, 1939, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Ian attended the National Gallery School of Art in Melbourne.
In 1964 Ian moved to London, where he became affiliated with Art and Language, and he continued this affiliation when he moved to New York City in 1967. Along with such artists as Mel Ramsden, Roger Cutforth and Joseph Kosuth, Mr. Burn worked as a publisher, editor and writer on a number of small magazines, including Untitled Magazine, Art-Language Magazine and The Fox, publications that favored Marxist theory and were often antagonistic toward the art world. His work was included in "Information," an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1970.
Mr. Burn returned to Australia in 1977 and taught at Sydney University. In 1979, he was active in the formation of the Artworkers Union, and in 1981 he began working as a journalist with the Union Media Services in Sydney, writing on a range of cultural and social subjects. Ian Burn drowned on September 29, 1993 while swimming in rough seas at Bawley Point, New South Wales.
1-6 glass / mirror piece
1967Blue Reflex
1967Diagram for a mirror piece / showing the multiple image...
1967Looking at a piece of glass
1968Looking through a piece of glass
1968No object implies the existence of any other
1967'Value added' landscape no. 11
1993Xerox Book
1968Yellow Blue Equivalence
1966You are never tired
1989He was a notable member of the Art and Language group that flourished in the 1970s.