“I have a curiosity and fascination for the lives of people that wouldn't ordinarily be of interest, in drawing them, their extraordinariness becomes apparent”
Burdock draws and paints from imagination and memory, creating a new world whilst referencing contemporary and historic Art and philosophy. From head, to hand, to paper to audience. Her interests lie in observing emerging ideologies as they manifest within smaller groups, looking at how they ripple through wider society. This year's theme is how the country’s political narrative manifests, these paintings and drawings have seen her been selected for the Neo Art Prize - Bolton Museum, the Wells Contemporary - Wells Cathedral, the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition and the Wales Contemporary - exhibiting in Wales and London, she also won the John Purcell Award - Bolton Museum. Last year - identity politics and it's impact on the individual. Prior to that, she won the annual Artist in Residence award looking at the impact of policy on the arts, Art versus design, and gender in the workplace at Quentin Blake's Gallery, The House of Illustration. Prior to that themes related to power struggles, corruption in the workplace, populism and narrative over truth and in 2016 she won the Royal College of Art Gordon Peter Pickard Award travelling on the Queen Mary 2 transatlantic, researching a community of people in their sixties, seventies and eighties, enjoying frivolous casual encounters during retirement.
Burdock draws and paints from imagination and memory, creating a new world whilst referencing contemporary and historic Art and philosophy. From head, to hand, to paper to audience. Her interests lie in observing emerging ideologies as they manifest within smaller groups, looking at how they ripple through wider society. This year's theme is how the country’s political narrative manifests, these paintings and drawings have seen her been selected for the Neo Art Prize - Bolton Museum, the Wells Contemporary - Wells Cathedral, the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition and the Wales Contemporary - exhibiting in Wales and London, she also won the John Purcell Award - Bolton Museum. Last year - identity politics and it's impact on the individual. Prior to that, she won the annual Artist in Residence award looking at the impact of policy on the arts, Art versus design, and gender in the workplace at Quentin Blake's Gallery, The House of Illustration. Prior to that themes related to power struggles, corruption in the workplace, populism and narrative over truth and in 2016 she won the Royal College of Art Gordon Peter Pickard Award travelling on the Queen Mary 2 transatlantic, researching a community of people in their sixties, seventies and eighties, enjoying frivolous casual encounters during retirement.
