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

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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.