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
Touch Collect Imagine: Final Masters Project
Scratching Beneath the Surface: Lucie Rie @ Kettle’s Yard
Admitting the Possibilities of Error: Exhibition Design
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
S L O W: Chakra Graffiti
Nature
Parachute: Cambridge School of Art Masters Degree Show Design
Resurface
Paintings
You Never Get It Done.
2025
I Know Why Women Love.
2024
Positive Is Not Stupid.
2024
Earth Magic #1
2025
Living From the Vortex
2025
Paint Has a Mind of Its Own
2025
Only The Good Stuff
2024
Resurface
2024
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 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 as a mode of communication 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 designing books and teaching, Mary is an accomplished painter whose large-scale works investigate the dynamic relationship between paint and painter. Whether through words, images, or objects, her practice is an ongoing inquiry into creativity as a transformative force.