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Madeleine Burt

Madeleine Burt

Lecturer

Nottingham School of Art & Design

Role

Madeleine Burt is an HPL tutor on the Graphic Design BA (Hons) Level 3 Dissertation module and a doctoral student undertaking a practice-based PhD in Illustration, specialising in graphic novels.

Career overview

  • 1998 BA (Hons) Leeds Metropolitan University
  • 2020 MA Nottingham Trent University
  • (ongoing) PhD Nottingham Trent University

Madeleine Burt joined the Graphic Design team at NTU in 2021 where she tutors on the dissertation module. She additionally has experience of working on the Illustration MA course.

Before joining NTU, Burt was Head of Art & Design at Bilborough College, Nottingham, where she had an eighteen-year career in post-16 education teaching Art & Design and History of Art. During her time there she was an active participant of the equality and diversity steering committee, helped establish the college’s first student LGBTQ+ group and was a fair treatment advisor.

Alongside her educational career, Burt is an award-winning fine artist with extensive exhibition experience, having shown work internationally including in London, Berlin and New York shows.

After retraining in illustration in 2020, Burt is now currently undertaking a practice-based PhD in Illustration at NTU, specialising in graphic novels.

Research areas

Burt is currently undertaking an M4C-funded PhD in illustration at NTU, supervised by Dr Sarah McConnell (Course Leader MA Illustration, NTU), Dr Carol Adlam (Associate Professor of Illustration, NTU) and Dr Eileen John (Professor of Philosophy, Warwick University).

Burt’s practice-based doctoral research is entitled 'The Phenomenology of Creativity in the Graphic Novel: A Practical Investigation of Intermedial Visual Storytelling'.

This research project investigates, through practice, how the formal properties of the graphic novel can represent epistemological and phenomenological processes, (that is, how we think, how we feel, how we know and experience the world), especially those processes which underpin the creative act. The project contributes to our understanding of the graphic novel as an emerging and under-studied medium whose intersecting relationship with existing mediums (e.g. literary fiction, poetry, fine art, film, narrative illustration, theatre) means that it has uniquely intermedial properties. My project aims to create a meta-narrative that exploits gaps and indeterminacies to reflect on creativity as an emergent property of consciousness; generating and employing a visual and textual language to signify and convey subjective, first-person experiencing and the interior workings of the mind, in a graphic novel narrative.

External activity

2024 Research presenter at M4C Research Festival 2024, Birmingham

2024 Research presenter for Collaborations, Connections and Positive Change, East Midlands Doctoral Conference

2024 Guest speaker at The Art of Mental Stealth, University of Nottingham

2024 Research presenter at NTU A&D Gradfest ’24, Post Graduate Symposium, Nottingham Contemporary

2024 Research presenter at NTU A&D Research & Innovation Conference, Broadway Cinema

2024 LDComics residency participant

2024 Guest speaker for LDComics

2023 WRAP, NTU, prizewinning writer

2021 World Illustration Awards, longlisted artist

2021 Guest workshop artist, Confetti, Nottingham

2021 Oh Magazine, illustration commission

2015 Collabor8 guest artist, Nottingham Contemporary Gallery, Nottingham

2014 Guest speaker for ‘Fiona Rae & Dan Perfect: Painter, Painter’, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham

2014 Circuit guest artist, Nottingham Contemporary Gallery, Nottingham

Selected exhibitions pre-2014:

2013 Archive solo show, Lace Market Gallery, NCN, Nottingham (for the Season of Lace)

2012 Archive 2012 solo show, Angeor Visitors' Centre, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham University

2012 Untitled, Studio 106 Art Gallery, Fulham, London

2012 Selected Work, George Smith Design, Chelsea, London

2012 U-N-F-O-R-E-S-E-E-N, Studio 106 Gallery, Fulham, London

2011 The Arthouse Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York

2010 Non-Fiction, Together Our Space Gallery, London

2010 Soft Confines, Turn-Berlin, Berlin

Course(s) I teach on