Ursula Burke's work explored abuses of power in many realms of the social and political in the West. Often, taking a Northern Irish context as a critical point of departure from which to generalise her approach outwards to international concerns.

Formally, Ursula's work appropriated tropes deeply invested in the Classical, and re-inserted them into the contemporary, aiming to create a conceptual bridge between the Classical 'ideal' (in form/society) and the 'reality' of contemporary post-conflict Northern Irish society. The Precariat brought together a body of work that sought to investigate the experience of insecurity, fast becoming a universal condition as we struggle to subsist in an impoverished and increasingly unstable civil society, in which personal solutions are prescribed to global problems.

 Ursula Burkeis an Irish artist who works in a variety of media including Porcelain Sculpture, Embroidery and Drawing. Much of her Fine Art practice deals with issues of Representation and Identity within contemporary Ireland and she completed a practice based PhD at the University of Ulster, Belfast exploring these themes.

She is an artist member of Outland Arts, Fermanagh and Associate Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has taken part in the following exhibitions internationally: Resurgence, Hillyer Arts Space, Washington, USA 2016; Irish Wave, Birth of a Nation, San Wei Gallery, Beijing, China ; Displacements – The Trouble with being Human these Days, Ex Elettrofonica Gallery, Rome ; Roman Remains, Transition Gallery, London ; Arafudo Art Annual, Fukushima, Japan ; Art of the Troubles, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK ; SCOPE New York, represented by Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland & Art International, Istanbul, represented by Ex Elettrofonica Gallery, Rome.