Xanthe Burdett
About
I think of my practice as a mesh, my paintings existing within a web extending outwards. One thread to the monumental hunting tapestries in the V&A, another to the way light dances across the fallen tree on the riverbank I grew up on. Paintings from museums, the way I felt when I first saw Anna Mendieta’s photographs after I heard the story of her death, the long cool shadows in the woods.
The mesh allows me to understand these connections free of the hierarchies and expectations of academia, patriarchy and anthropocentrism; each point within it connects and entangles. The nature of the practice makes linear arguments redundant. There is no singular narrative through-line, each painting is an invitation to engage with the tangle.
Xanthe Burdett is an artist from Devon living and working in London. Prior to the Royal College of Art she received her BA in Education, English and Drama at Cambridge University.
Recent shows include The Unwritten Script at Sarah Kravitz, Palimpsestic Impressions at Arusha Gallery and Within and Without at Liliya. She was the winner of the De Laszlo Foundation Young Artist Prize and shortlisted for the Jacksons Painting Prize.
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