Burchell works as an anti-disciplinary South African artist weaving together various forms of science and technology, ideas sourced from and (critical of) anthropology, along with sound and interactivity in her art. Her work often fuses the digital with the natural world through sculptural objects and interactive environments. Burchell’s work explores the power inherent in the creation of an archive. In her current project Songsmith, she restores broken objects and sites by embedding golden sound instruments (songsmith) into them. These sculptures respond to human contact by revealing song about people, places and events within the vicissitudes of time.