Gina Burney

Lecturer: Illustration & Graphic Design (Integrated Foundation Year)

Gina Burney is an illustrator/artist, workshop facilitator and lecturer. She graduated with her BA(Hons) degree in Graphic Arts from LJMU in 2002, completed her PGCE in 2005 and her Masters degree ‘Maker Teacher’ at MMU in 2011. She joined the IFY (Integrated Foundation Year) team at Falmouth University in June 2022. Prior to this she gained 16 years’ experience as an art & design educator teaching Graphic Communication, Contextual Studies and lecturing on Art Foundation in her city of origin, Manchester. Her work could often be found around the city in the form of illustrated posters and flyers made for gigs, club nights and art exhibitions. Whilst always drawn to these temporary and often throwaway paper artefacts, she is equally passionate about the power of graphic iconography to have a lasting impact on how we think and communicate, and particularly its role in the visual language of social and political activism. Since making the rugged and wild shores of Cornwall her home, her recent illustration work has ventured towards the surreal, and her collaged ‘dreamscapes’ seek to find meaning in the incidental marks and layers of abstraction derived from a subconscious space and consider how these renderings offer up questions about memory, perception and our collective existence as dwellers of this unique land.

External Links

• Gina's Instagram

Contact details

Email gina.burney@falmouth.ac.uk