Statement

Burdock's interests lie in observing emerging socio-political ideas as they manifest within pockets of society. Her drawings and paintings reference historical art and philosophy looking under the surface of social interaction where disparate knots and sporadic shoots of psychological intensity emerge through a collective consciousness, which are transported from person to person and group to group, finally creating wider culture. Research is based in the here and now, current affairs, the impact of religion and politics, these paintings and drawings have been selected for the New Contemporaries, The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2020, to the BEEP International Contemporary 2020, the Royal Soc British artists, the Chaiya Art Awards, the Neo Art Prize - Bolton Museum, to the Wells Contemporary - Wells Cathedral, the Wales Contemporary and shows in New York. In 2018 she won the annual Artist in Residence award looking at the impact of policy on the arts at Quentin Blake's Gallery. In 2021 she was awarded an Arts Council Award, in 2021 she won a SPACE Artist award and in 2019 she won the John Purcell award - Bolton Museum. Whilst at the Royal College of Art she won the Gordon Peter Pickard Award and 2nd prize Sheila Robinson award.

​“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide” D.W.Winnicott