Art
Burgoyne’s work is an expanded drawing practice, focused on the paradox of making visible invisibility. He engages in a broad-based site-specific drawing practice that wrestles with the paradoxes inherent in the phenomenology of invisibility through film, live performance and installation. His work challenges the imposed synchronicities of capitalisation and exploitation of the body. In doing so, he seeks to elevate precarity and non-hierarchy as both veritable and emancipatory actualities that see weakness as power.
Burgoyne was born in Glasgow Scotland. He is an artist, researcher, and writer. He studied at the Universität Für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna and The Royal College of Art, London. He regularly presents papers at conferences and exhibits mainly in Europe. Recent solo exhibitions in 2023-25 included The Lowry Manchester; Performance Art Bergen; Civitella Ranieri Foundation Perugia; Bochum Kunsthallen; Museo dell’arte Classico Rome; Château de Montsoreau- Musée d’Art Contemporain, Loire; Performing Space Association Greece and Ex -chiesa San Mattia, Bologna, commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Forthcoming exhibitions in 2026 include Palazzo Collicola Museum of Modern Art, Spoleto and Fantastik Lab Valencia. His work features in ‘Performance drawing-new practices’ published by Bloomsbury Books in 2022. He is co-Writer for 'Drawing as Placemaking: Environment, History, and Identity' to be published by Bloomsbury Books in February 2026.
Relationscapes: Encounters is an exhibition featuring six international performance artists reflecting on the theme of borders. Borders are contradictory; they protect and exclude, they reveal and conceal, they are physical and psychological, visible and invisible. Relationscapes: Encounters explores both the porosity and fluidity of these borders. A variety of themes such as chronic online presence, war trauma, power structures versus non-hierarchical systems and liminal beings are being investigated. The exhibition features installations, video, and live performances by Finn Adrian Jorkjen, Toni Brell, Karolina Rupp, Maja Zećo, Greig Burgoyne and Lola Bezemer.
