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Burdock draws and paints from imagination and memory, creating new worlds whilst referencing contemporary and historic Art and philosophy. From head, to hand, to surface to audience, her interests lie in observing emerging ideologies as they manifest within small social groups. Under the surface of social interaction, 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 seen her been selected for many exhibitions ranging from the BEEP International Contemporary 2020, 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, The House of Illustration. In 2019 she won the John Purcell award - Bolton Museum. Prior to that she won the Royal College of Art Gordon Peter Pickard Award amongst others