2025 Artist in Residence
May 31-June 25
Myles Burry (b. 1994) is an architectural designer and self-taught painter from Wesleyville, NL, currently residing and working in Bergen, Norway. His creative practice explores themes of nostalgia, melancholy, and the sublime – drawing inspiration from the architectural, cultural, and physical landscapes of his home and childhood in rural Newfoundland and Labrador.
Burry’s architectural work seeks to forge a contemporary Newfoundland architectural style that honors traditional buildings while embracing modern sensibilities. By reinterpreting historical motifs and forms through a contemporary lens, he aims to create designs that resonate with the complex and evolving experiences of modern Newfoundlanders.
Much like his architectural work, Burry’s paintings start from personal photographs and archival photos that evoke imagery symbolic of the province’s collective identity and infuses elements of pop culture and iconography to ground the work in a specific time and place. Although his paintings explore ideas of isolation and loneliness though subject and composition, the work evokes a sense of childlike wonder and vibrancy through a flat, folk-inspired, style and hyper-saturated colour palette.
Burry holds a Bachelor of Technology from Memorial University of Newfoundland and both a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies and a Master of Architecture from Dalhousie University.