Dublin City Council Arts Office is delighted to announce, Alan James Burns as recipient of the Irish Artists’ Residential Studio Award, 2011-2012, in The Red Stables, St Anne’s Park, Dublin 3.

The Irish Artists’ Residential Studio Award is intended to support an emerging visual artist at a crucial stage of their professional practice and includes studio and living accommodation at nominal rent and inclusion in exhibition programme at The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1. Alan James Burns will use the coming year to research, develop and produce a new body of work that investigates differences in physical and behavioural traits. He will conduct experiments and make observations on the ability to act, think and feel autonomously.

Alan James Burns is a video, installation, performance artist  based in Dublin. He received a BA in Fine Art, from Dublin Institute of Technology, 2008. Solo exhibitions include Till the Cows Come Home, Cavan County Museum, 2011 and To Walk in a State of Finality than in one of Impermance, Exchange Gallery, 2010. Forthcoming exhibitions include Claremorrise Open, Claremorrise, Co Mayo and Gracelands, Co. Leitrim, 2011.

For further information contact-

Dublin City Council Arts Office, The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1

T. 01 222 7841 E. red.stables@dublincity.ie

www.redstablesartists.com

www.alanjamesburns.com