Xanthe Burdett United Kingdom, b. 1995

"My work is concerned with the body in nature and the question of the body as nature. Through a personal mythology deeply rooted in place I am entangling bodies and stories into layered works where the line between the human and non-human wavers and stretches. The works, moving between extreme scales, push and pull as strange creatures rise to the surface through the layers of glazing. 

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 Ana Mendieta’s photographs after I heard the story of her death, the long cool shadows in the woods."