Chila Burman

Chila Burman visited my Graphic Design class when I was at college and I really liked her work. After revisiting here work and researching her I actually found out that she is an artist in residence at East London, small world!

Chila has explored in many different mediums over the last couple of decades. She has explored the use of photography, paintings, installations, printmaking, video and film. A lot of her work to date has been influenced by her heritage, Asian Feminity.

Chila was born in Liverpool and lives and works in London. She was educated at Southport College, studying an Art and Design Foundation course. By 1981 she studied BA Fine Art and Graphic Design at Leeds Technic, finally ending her education with an MA Fine Art (printmaking) at Slade School of Art.

Since this time Chila has partcipated in many exhibitions and picked up countless awards for her work.

Chila uses lots of ice-creams, which remind her of her childhood as her parents owned there own ice cream truck, also she uses ladies underwear in a lot of her collages.

Her work involving collages of underwear helped me to develop a final piece at college. I really liked the vibrant colours she used and the idea that she wasn't afraid to use whatever she liked as her subject matter.