Lipstick | acrylic on canvas | 150 x 100 cm | 2019
Christy Burdock was awarded the John Purcell Paper Award at Neo:ArtPrize at Bolton Museum 2019
“A perceptive, intelligent, touching drawing” Sacha Craddock
Burdock’s practice takes her across Britain and sometimes the world, sitting amongst people, listening to their stories, giving them new life and vibrancy through drawing. From head, to hand, to audience, she communicates through images, seeking to illuminate and inform, offering a new and fresh perspective on what was always there, unseen and unnoticed. She draws the lives of people hidden in plain sight.
In 2016 she was awarded the RCA Gordon Peter Pickard award to travel on the QM2 transatlantic, in 2017 she was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, in 2018 she became the annual resident artist in Quentin Blake’s public gallery House of Illustration and in 2019 she was selected for the Neo:Art Prize 2019, the Creekside Open 2019, the Wales Contemporary, ING Discerning Eye and the Wells Contemporary Open 2019. In 2019 she won the John Purcell Award at the Bolton Museum Neo:artprize exhibition.
In 2016 she was awarded the RCA Gordon Peter Pickard award to travel on the QM2 transatlantic, in 2017 she was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, in 2018 she became the annual resident artist in Quentin Blake’s public gallery House of Illustration and in 2019 she was selected for the Neo:Art Prize 2019, the Creekside Open 2019, the Wales Contemporary, ING Discerning Eye and the Wells Contemporary Open 2019. In 2019 she won the John Purcell Award at the Bolton Museum Neo:artprize exhibition.
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide” D.W.Winnicott