Tim Burns

Tim Burns is an Australian underground artist active since the 1970s. He rose to notoriety with a series of (literally) explosive art actions, before decamping to New York, where he remained, on and off until the mid-1990s. Rather than identifying as a painter, filmmaker, karaoke videographer, installation artist, theatre director or performer (although he has done all these and more), Burns calls himself ‘a context artist’. His most notable film projects are Political Transmission (1978), WHY CARS?-CARnage! (1979) and Against the Grain: More Meat Than Wheat (1981).