"The speed of her lettering reflects the haste of Urban life but in her work it implies a balanced, optimistic race for success - never a descent into frantic disorder......She has a quite unnerving ability to create depth and distance while still making work which has a light, almost throwaway character."

Cover Story, Crafts Magazine (June 1998: All Bar One nationwide exhibition)

Recent publications to feature Kirsten Burke include The Independent, Crafts magazine, Harpers and Queen, Design Week, The Edge and selected local newspapers.

The Independent reported: " For anyone who still thinks of calligraphy just as something you find on your Certificate of Merit from Sunday school, it's high time to think again......watch out: the writing's already on the wall."

Specialist press

"Shakespeare's words on the 'devil' drink from Othello are wrenched apart and stained with spilt wine, an outburst." said the Yorkshire Post.