Chila burman biography books
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As a graduate of print, the tactile nature of paper is important to me but regardless of the materiel, I find every surface, whether its concrete walls for mural painting, cast-iron balustrades, neo-classical columns or even our bodies, I can find a canvas for expression.
I collaborate with some of the leading craftspeople and specialists in the world, from Bermondsey-based OMNI print for digital graphics, to Set Works for large-scale neon installations, I always love to watch, learn and get stuck in myself on the technical application of my artworks into whatever format it requires.
My studio is a repository of ideas. I hoard everything, from magazines, leaflets, stickers, statues, ceramics, glassware, cones, mannequins, you name it, I'll keep it!
My portfolios from student days and all of my sketchbooks from across the years are often a place I'll return to, to reflect, to explore how my thinking has changed or how it hasn't. I love cutting and pasting words and imagery from old books, magazine issues, catalogues or prints. And somewhere in amongst all of it, I always like to keep a bottle of fizz to keep me going.
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2022
London First Print Sane, Somerset Nurse, London
2022
The Assail Art Justified, Truman Restaurant, London
2022
Hidden delight in Plain Of vision, Stephen Writer Gallery, Borough
2022
Argonon Drama & Pearl Drops, Mansard Heading, Heal's
2021
Covent Garden commission
2020-21
Remembering a use up new world, Tate Kingdom Winter Issue
2017
Iluminating India, Body of knowledge Museum
2017
Beyond Stop, Wolverhampton Direct Gallery
2017
Dada Station The Sanskrit Princess, Attenborough Centre, City
2017
Put it on - Rendering in Sweeten, MAK Heading, London
2015
MAJAJINI RichMix London
2015
MY RANGILI Merry-go-round Hold Arts, Richard Attenborough Hub
2014
That IS Mass ME, Galley Gallery Writer
2013
Sexuality Matters, Sultanate Gallery SOAS London
2013
Ice Ointment and Bindi Girls, Chemistry Festival, Southbank Centre
2011
Fragments of Disheartened Imagination, Divergence Gallery, Singapore
2010
Chila Burman’s Regal Academy Season Exhibition, Appropriate Gallery, Author
2008
A Make of Chila Burman's paintings, prints weather drawings, Huyton Gallery Assemblage, Knowlsey, City
2006
CANDY Appear & Fancy LUCY, Author Lawrence Gallery
2005-07
Damascus and City, British Convention touring exhibition
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Chila Kumari Burman: Beyond Two Cultures
This monograph brings together the work of Chili Kumari Burman from 1980 to 1995. Burman was among a handful of artists whose families had settled in post-war Britain and who emerged from art schools in the early 1980s. Faced with an art establishment unwilling to recognize the individual cultural practices of such artists beyond the stereotypes of ethnicity, Burman became part of a militant vanguard determined to gain their right to full participation in the nations cultural life on their own terms - meaning, amongst other things, self-representation and artistic credibility. Burman has consistently used her own image in an ever-expanding repertoire of provocative and active female identities, complementing her artwork with polemical texts, curating exhibitions and community art projects.