Produced as a commissioned series for Photoworks and English Heritage’s Focal Point Artist Residency Programme, 'Kingdoms of Scattered Stones' positions itself within Burgis's ongoing practice surrounding her relationship with Englishness as a British-Thai woman.
Situated within her home county of Dorset, the Neolithic site of the Kingston Russel Stone Circle becomes a representational structure for personal and cultural understandings of time, trace and belonging.
With the etymology of the stones geology potentially deriving from words for 'foreign' and 'non-christian', the relationship between language and land became a central axis to the series. The body of work contemplates how language, text and storytelling influence the cultural identities we connect with through experimentations with scanned text from family archives and books shared within the local Thai community.
'Kingdoms of Scattered Stones' is currently on display at Stonehenge Visitor Centre until September 2025 as part of 'Echoes: Stone Circles, Community and Heritage'