Basak Alpas Burak is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice emerges from lived experience — particularly the everyday realities of womanhood, vulnerability, and resilience. Working across painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, installation and performance, she engages with material as a carrier of memory, tension, and survival.

Her work reflects on subtle and overt forms of violence — emotional, social, and structural — embedded within daily life. Fragility becomes both subject and method: porcelain may crack, thread may bind or restrain, gesture may endure. Through repetition, physical engagement, and natural materials, she investigates how the body and domestic forms hold traces of pressure, care, rupture, and repair.

Drawing from organic processes and life cycles, her paintings and objects often incorporate natural substances, emphasising impermanence and transformation. Making becomes an act of witness — a quiet resistance and a space for reflection.

Before dedicating herself fully to Fine Art, Burak spent fifteen years in corporate communications and marketing in Istanbul, later transitioning into education — working closely with children, including those with Special Educational Needs, as a teaching assistant in London state primary schools and private nurseries. These experiences continue to inform her sensitivity to care, communication, and the social structures that shape visibility and voice.

She went on to study Fine Art formally — a Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design (UAL, WAES College), an HND in Fine Art, and a BA (Hons) in Creative Practice, all at Morley College — and begins an MA in Creative Practice at Morley College in September 2026. Her practice continues to evolve through material research and critical inquiry within contemporary art discourse.