Xanthe Scout Lardner-Burke

Xanthe Scout Lardner-Burke (b. 1998, South Africa) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer based in Cape Town. Her process-driven practice focuses on themes of precarity, structures, language, and value production. Guided by chance and willed accident, her work spans painting and sculpture. In her painting, watered-down substrates evolve unpredictably, while her sculptures inscribe smaller gestures into the larger, gestural work of her paintings.

A graduate of the Michaelis School of Fine Art (2021), Lardner-Burke has exhibited with prominent galleries such as 99 Loop Gallery, participating in various group exhibitions and solo shows, including EXIT STRATEGY(2024). Her recent projects include curating Offcuts at the Association for Visual Arts and being selected as a finalist for the 2024 ANNA Award.

Lardner-Burke continues to push the boundaries of her practice, using her work as a platform to investigate deeper conversations about structures, value, and language we use to describe them.