Christy Burdock has an interest in politics, religion, history and heritage, communicating and reinterpreting emerging culture, as it manifests within contemporary society. Researching small British societies, in situ across the country, then drawing in her London studio, she creates works that are based in the here and now, but steeped in philosophy and historical narrative. She is absorbed in observing the knots and shoots emerging through collective consciousness, transported from person to person and group to group, finally creating wider culture. 

Research this year is based within museum collections, as well as within the House of Commons. She refers to historic painting, the work of the old masters and works within the tradition of William Hogarth and Stanley Spencer, both English artists that documented life around them.

Her paintings and drawings have won a variety of awards and prizes detailed here.

“I shine a dim and gentle light into corners of British life. By observing, imagining, drawing and painting, I seek to illuminate, and in so doing, pay homage to my subjects”
​Christy Burdock

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Research and a solo show at Newton Abbot Museum, Devon.

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During the Covid restriction era research centred on the relationship between media and the public. 

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Christy won the The Gordon Peter Pickard Travel Award when at the Royal College of Art, to travel transatlantic on the QM2 cruise ship, London to New York. It was populated by fun loving octogenarians and various other groups singing and dancing their way across the ocean.

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A Pall Mall Gentleman's Club in London undergoing a period of champagne fuelled political turbulence.

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Christy was awarded the artist in residence at Quentin Blake’s gallery, The House of Illustration in Kings Cross London, culminating in a solo show. She proposed she research the staff, the visitors and surrounding community. Within the gallery she found a high level of finely honed skills in the professionals working behind the scenes, from curators to conservators.