Designer, artist, writer and educator specialising in book design—exploring the intersection of the imagination, material form, and creative collaboration. Welcoming new projects in art direction, graphic design and writing.

Design Projects

Tomorrow is another day: Artist’s Book

Insitu: Theatre Company

Holding Space: Elspeth Owen

Aleph to Beth zine

Touch Collect Imagine: Final Masters Project

This is the Place: films for New Meaning Training

Scratching Beneath the Surface: Lucie Rie @ Kettle’s Yard

Graphic Girls

Admitting the Possibilityof Error: Exhibition Design

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

S L O W: Chakra Graffiti

Nature zine

Parachute: Cambridge School of Art Masters Degree Show Design

Resurface

Paintings

September Sky (2025)

Moving to the Light (2025)

Safe Place (2025)

New Wealth (2025)

21 (2025)

The Horizon Leans Forward (2025)

Ordinary Gorgeous (2025)

Delicious (2025)

Soften the Edges (2025)

Feeling the Vortex (2025)

Art is Electrical (2025)

Disco Lights (2025)

Unconditional Fabulous (2025)

13 (2025)

Born on Mill Road (2025)

Only the Good Stuff (2025)

Painting Rainbows (2025)

Resurface (2025)

Faye (2025)

Get Into the Vortex and Then(2025)

Hidden (2025)

Lucy in the Sky (2025)

Rockin’ (2025)

(2025)

About

Mary Burke is a designer, artist, photographer, and writer working from her studio just outside Cambridge.

She teaches part-time at the Cambridge School of Creative Industries at Anglia Ruskin University, where she encourages Film and Media students to harness the power of imagination in their creative practice.

With a background spanning television, PR, event management, and marketing, Mary found her true calling in graphic design, completing her master’s in Graphic Design & Typography in 2023 at the Cambridge School of Art.

Her work explores material form and the relationship between Imagination and the creative process. She is particularly interested in how multidisciplinary collaboration unlocks new ways of thinking and making. Photography is also an important part of Mary’s creative process.

Alongside client work and teaching, Mary paints large-scale mixed media works that intend to investigate the dynamic relationship between paint and painter, thinking and making and the power of the analogue.

Whether through words, images, or objects, her practice is an ongoing inquiry into creativity as a transformative force.