A bad scan of the first page of the article about Tim Burns – this amazing photo is by Redmond Bridgeman.

Tim Burns has an exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA right now.

His old friend Roger Foley Fogg mentioned to me that there is a quote emblazoned somewhere on the wall of the gallery about Tim, based on an article I wrote about him years ago.

I realised that I haven’t posted that article – from 2013(?) – online yet. It was in Artist Profile magazine, Issue 14, and the guest editor was Glenn Barkley.

Here is a very poor scan of the article. I would like to find a better scan, if only because there are some beautiful photos of Tim, by Redmond Bridgeman, which deserve better treatment!

– Lucas, 2026

PS – at the end of the article, I wrote:

Sometime soon – I have no doubt – these documents will form the basis of a comprehensive book about the artist – providing younger generations with access to this important, but largely unknown body of work.

… and on the web page about the exhibition at the AGWA, I find this:

The exhibition is accompanied by a 200+ page catalogue that is the first published book on the artist’s career. It features new writing by exhibition curator Aimee Dodds and Dr Edward Colless.

Ha ha! Finally the book is here.