FREEMAN CHRISTY BURDOCK WINS 2024 JUDD MEDICAL THIRD PRIZE ROYAL BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
4 JULY 2024
Christy Burdock has just completed a residency researching hill farmers in a remote part of England by the borders, rural Northumberland, one of her pieces has just won third prize in the RBSA 2024 Portrait Prize Exhibition
This piece depicts a scene that Christy Burdock witnessed as she was researching a rural community in a remote part of England. The farmers she was talking with had lived intertwined with the land and its animals, for generations. They had fingers like sausages and hands like spades. The countryside is deep in politics and she was interested in the interface between them, farmers, and herself, city dwelling, contemporary artist. There were similarities in their lives. The dissimilarities were multiple, they lived by the weather, skies and for animals and the land. She lived for paintings, people, graphite, paper, paint and canvas. They worked continuously, barring illness or death.