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Researching groups and communities, in situ, across the country, then drawing in her London studio, Christy Burdock creates works that are based in the here and now, but steeped in philosophy and historical narrative.
Relying on the subjectivity of story telling, Christy has an interest in ideas, religion, history and heritage, communicating and reinterpreting emerging culture, as it manifests within contemporary society. Humour and irony is often used as a tool, softening the knots and shoots observed emerging through collective consciousness, creating wider culture. Research this year is based within museum collections. 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. |
“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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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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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.
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