Burdock draws from imagination and memory, awkward drawings creating a new world whist referencing contemporary philosophy and historic Art. From head, to hand, to paper to audience, she communicates through the labour of drawing. Her interests lie in observing emerging wider socio-political ideas as they manifest within smaller groups, looking at how ideologies ripple through society. A socio political commentator, this year's themes are the impact of policy on the arts, Art versus design, and gender in the workplace. Some of last year's themes relate to power struggles, Populism and narrative over truth and in 2016 she travelled on the Queen Mary 2 transatlantic, researching a community of people in their sixties, seventies and eighties enjoying frivolous casual encounters during retirement.
"Burdock's drawings immediately struck me with their sense of narrative and atmospheric rendition. I was engaged by the groups of figures which are mysterious but believable like people in dreams. Delicate and unusual colour is used to good effect in a personal way." Chloe Cheese
"Burdock's drawings immediately struck me with their sense of narrative and atmospheric rendition. I was engaged by the groups of figures which are mysterious but believable like people in dreams. Delicate and unusual colour is used to good effect in a personal way." Chloe Cheese
