Since the late 1990's Burrows' research practice has involved the imagination of others. Interested in how place, memory and community shapes a nuanced sense of self, the artist utilises the filmmaker' tools to firstly document then to interpret narratives of everyday existence. Over the years she has undertaken a number of participatory productions,
Since the late 1990's Burrows' research practice has involved the imagination of others. Interested in how place, memory and community shapes a nuanced sense of self, the artist utilises the filmmaker' tools to firstly document then to interpret narratives of everyday existence. Over the years she has undertaken a number of participatory productions, including collaborations with individuals attached to education and care institutions in inner-city Manchester, a theatre company, pensioner's club and reading group in Pontypridd, then more recently a community of market stallholders in Cardiff. Characteristic of this body of work is an aesthetic concern with how the conventions of documentary and drama production can be appropriated with provocative effective within a gallery context. Within those walls of Cardiff Market Hall opportunities were sought for playful interaction with self-selecting stall holders, collaborators who were otherwise preoccupied with selling their wares, see http://jmpscreenworks.com/?pid=burrows. Burrows recently took up residence at the production studios of Pobol y Cwm, where she has been able to further develop methodologies for participatory practice, working with fictional characters who are not afraid to react .The artist's intertwined thematic and aesthetic investigations are underpinned by a conscious commitment to the eradication from the English language the term 'ordinary people'.
Research interests include: Digital film aesthetics, feminist film, site-specific installation, participatory art, artist’s cinema, cross-disciplinary collaboration, hybridity.
Current Position
Snr. Lecturer in Film University of South Wales, UK
Education
1995 The National Film & Television School, Beaconsfield (specialism: Fiction Directing)
1984 M.A. Fine Art Printmaking, Royal College of Art
1981 B.A.(Hon.) Fine Art (Film/Printmaking) Maidstone College of Art
Screenings & Exhibitions
2016 Underwire UK Women’s Film Festival, London (nomination best composition )
2016 Women Over 50 Film Festival, Brighton (runner-up Best Film)
2015 Politics and Poetics Documentary Symposium, University of Santa Cruz, California
2014 G39 Gallery, Cardiff
2014 National Eisteddfod, Llanelli