Xanthe Burdett’s practice explores the shifting relationship between the human form and the natural landscape, questioning where the individual boundary ends and the external ecosystem begins. Rooted in an exploration of the body as nature rather than merely existing within it, her compositions weave together a highly personal mythology that treats figures and environments as deeply entangled entities. Her canvases are constructed like non-hierarchical webs, drawing parallel lines between deeply personal physical memories, literature, and historic art lineages.

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Burdett’s practice relies heavily on a complex process of material layering. Building up her surfaces through multiple applications of translucent glazing, she allows fluid, ambiguous forms and strange figures to slowly push and pull against the canvas plane. The resulting paintings fluctuate between intimate and monumental scales, acting as psychological thresholds where limbs, foliage, and animals visibly merge into the same physical space—subtly challenging the traditional separation between the human and non-human world.

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She graduated from MA Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024 and received her BA in Education, English and Drama at Cambridge University. Solo shows include Vegetable Venus, Wilder Gallery, Psychopomp with Palo Gallery, New York, and Voices Caught in the Earth with Wilder Gallery, London. Recent group shows include Double Double gallery, Hunna Gallery, Palo Gallery, Huxley- parlour, and Salford Museum. Her work has been shown internationally with exhibitions in New York, Beijing and Kuwait.