MA - RCA
BFA - Falmouth University.
Burt's practice addresses what she considers the most important questions of our era- what is our position as animals in the Anthropocene, how are we connecting to the natural world and can we consider this differently?
Burt approaches these questions by using material process in a format inclusive of the audience-She is interested in the engagement between artist and viewer, and how this collaboration can influence the outcome of the work, as well as provoke the audience into new thoughts or a deeper connection with the artist. The organic growth of the sculptures placed within the gallery directly respond to the flow of people in and out of the space. The collective collaboration of audience and artist also creates a higher awareness in the visitors to the making process, and heightens their connection with the work.
Past projects used bronze as the medium, to question the identity of the gallery space and allow a wider audience to engage with the bronze casting process, for example through the making of collaborative sculptures using objects that burn out in the furnace, casting the bronze as a live performance and then reconstructing the sculptures for a final show. It was a Winston Churchill Fellowship, for which she travelled to the Newari casters of Patan and among the Dhokra tribes of rural India, which inspired her to bring bronze casting into a closer sphere of engagement with artist and public.
Burt's latest work looks at human-non-human relationship and responsibility. A bronze vulture installed in a pub in Whitechapel looks down on the audience, endangered species due to the poisoning of the poachers. Two pandas think about mating under the intense gaze of human intervention. Plastic infiltrates a sausage dog, beloved designer dog, yet sadly vulnerable to our human intervention.
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Burt runs bronze casting workshops, and casts bronze using the ceramic shell lost-wax casting method in her home studio. In Autumn 2016 Burt undertook a Winston Churchill travel fellowship to Nepal and India, to study the traditional methods of bronze casting using natural and locally sourced materials, with the aim of bringing back an awareness of traditional casting methods to the UK, and widening the knowledge and accessibility of foundry craft to a wider audience.
Burt is council member of the British Art Medal Society and specialises in art medal commissions.
Past commissions have included a silver medal for The Goldsmiths' Company, a worn medal for The United Guilds Service of St Paul's Cathedral. The Chorister Medal can be viewed here. Other commissions include a commemorative portrait medal of Dr Andrew Burnett for The British Museum and On the Edge of the Present, a collector's edition for BAMS.
In 2013 the British Art Medal Society awarded her the position of New Medallist. Through this Burt studied the collections of medals within the archives of the British Museum and the V&A, spent a period of study within the engraving department at the Royal Mint, and lived in Bulgaria for 6 weeks studying medal making with renowned Professor, Bogomil Nikolov.
Burt returned to Bulgaria in 2015 to participate in an international artists symposium in the old capital of Veliko Tornovo, working and living alongside artists from across Europe.
BFA - Falmouth University.
Burt's practice addresses what she considers the most important questions of our era- what is our position as animals in the Anthropocene, how are we connecting to the natural world and can we consider this differently?
Burt approaches these questions by using material process in a format inclusive of the audience-She is interested in the engagement between artist and viewer, and how this collaboration can influence the outcome of the work, as well as provoke the audience into new thoughts or a deeper connection with the artist. The organic growth of the sculptures placed within the gallery directly respond to the flow of people in and out of the space. The collective collaboration of audience and artist also creates a higher awareness in the visitors to the making process, and heightens their connection with the work.
Past projects used bronze as the medium, to question the identity of the gallery space and allow a wider audience to engage with the bronze casting process, for example through the making of collaborative sculptures using objects that burn out in the furnace, casting the bronze as a live performance and then reconstructing the sculptures for a final show. It was a Winston Churchill Fellowship, for which she travelled to the Newari casters of Patan and among the Dhokra tribes of rural India, which inspired her to bring bronze casting into a closer sphere of engagement with artist and public.
Burt's latest work looks at human-non-human relationship and responsibility. A bronze vulture installed in a pub in Whitechapel looks down on the audience, endangered species due to the poisoning of the poachers. Two pandas think about mating under the intense gaze of human intervention. Plastic infiltrates a sausage dog, beloved designer dog, yet sadly vulnerable to our human intervention.
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Burt runs bronze casting workshops, and casts bronze using the ceramic shell lost-wax casting method in her home studio. In Autumn 2016 Burt undertook a Winston Churchill travel fellowship to Nepal and India, to study the traditional methods of bronze casting using natural and locally sourced materials, with the aim of bringing back an awareness of traditional casting methods to the UK, and widening the knowledge and accessibility of foundry craft to a wider audience.
Burt is council member of the British Art Medal Society and specialises in art medal commissions.
Past commissions have included a silver medal for The Goldsmiths' Company, a worn medal for The United Guilds Service of St Paul's Cathedral. The Chorister Medal can be viewed here. Other commissions include a commemorative portrait medal of Dr Andrew Burnett for The British Museum and On the Edge of the Present, a collector's edition for BAMS.
In 2013 the British Art Medal Society awarded her the position of New Medallist. Through this Burt studied the collections of medals within the archives of the British Museum and the V&A, spent a period of study within the engraving department at the Royal Mint, and lived in Bulgaria for 6 weeks studying medal making with renowned Professor, Bogomil Nikolov.
Burt returned to Bulgaria in 2015 to participate in an international artists symposium in the old capital of Veliko Tornovo, working and living alongside artists from across Europe.
