Mirranda Burton

{{Short description|New Zealand printmaker and graphic novelist}}

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| education = Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts (North Adelaide School of Art), Bachelor of Multimedia Design (Swinburne University of Technology)

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Mirranda Burton (born 1973) is a New Zealand-born artist and writer living on Wurundjeri land/Melbourne, Australia.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/948291321|title=Three words : an anthology of Aotearoa/NZ women's comics|others=Joyce, Rae,, Laing, Sarah, 1973-, Neville, Indira, 1973-|isbn=9780994120502|location=Auckland, New Zealand|oclc=948291321}}

Burton works within the disciplines of printmaking, commercial and independent animation, illustration, graphic recording and graphic storytelling. The main focus of her art practice is linocut printmaking and writing and drawing graphic novels. Her first comic strip stories appeared from 2008 in publications such as Tango and [https://goingdownswinging.org.au/ Going Down Swinging]. In 2011 her first graphic novel [https://blackpepperpublishing.com/burtonh.html Hidden] was published by [https://blackpepperpublishing.com/ Black Pepper Publishing], for which she received an Aurealis Award and a Gold Ledger for excellence in Australian comics. Hidden was also published under the title [https://www.la-boite-a-bulles.com/work/134 Cachés] by [https://www.la-boite-a-bulles.com La Boîte à Bulles]. In 2021 her second graphic novel [https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/fiction/Underground-Mirranda-Burton-9781760631475 Underground: Marsupial Outlaws and Other Rebels of Australia’s War in Vietnam] was published by Allen & Unwin.

Burton was Illustrator-in-Residence at The Atrium, Federation Square during the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2012 {{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/artist-uncovers-a-hidden-world-20110828-1jges.html|title=Artist uncovers a hidden world|last=Webb|first=Carolyn|date=2011-08-29|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2019-09-18}} and artist in residence at the [https://www.dunmoochin.org Dunmoochin Foundation], 2011 to 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/printmaker-mirranda-burton-opens-studio-to-the-public-through-nillumbik-artists-open-studios-program/news-story/a5cae26318fe710485b191c284d1b000|title=Storyteller finds an animated career|date=2013-11-28|website=www.heraldsun.com.au|language=en|access-date=2019-09-18}}