Chila Kumari Singh Burman

Tiger, 2020

A3 poster, 42 x 29.7cm

Signed on front by the artist, numbered /100 verso

Maximum of 2 posters per person. This poster is unframed.


Chila Kumari Singh Burman

Chila Kumari Singh Burman is celebrated internationally for her radical feminist practice, spanning printmaking, drawing, painting, installation and film. Her Punjabi and Liverpudlian heritage enrich her self-expressive work. Burman mashes up stereotypes to create new identities, beyond the limitations imposed on South Asian women in a British cultural context.

This signed and numbered poster depicts a detail from Burman’s incredible Tate Winter Commission, remembering a brave new world. When all galleries and museums in London were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Chila’s incredible neon installation was a gift to city, and the world, it’s bright neon lights beacon of hope.

The façade of Tate Britain combines Hindu mythology, Bollywood imagery, colonial history and personal memories, inspired by the artist’s childhood visits to the Blackpool illuminations and her family’s ice-cream van. The many illuminated deities, shapes and words are joined by Lakshmibai, the Rani (queen) of Jhansi. Lakshmibai was a fierce female warrior in India’s resistance to British colonial rule in the 19th century.

The commission opened to coincide Diwali, the Festival of Light. It is a celebration of new beginnings, the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness. remembering a brave new world takes inspiration from the luminous struggles and victories of the past to offer hope for a brighter future.

Hospital Rooms

Hospital Rooms was co-founded by artist Tim A Shaw and curator Niamh White after a close friend was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. They were shocked to find that the environment that she was in at this very distressing time was not only cold and clinical, but also dilapidated and run down.

Hospital Rooms now bring extraordinary art and creative activity to some of the most vulnerable and marginalised members of society. So far, we have undertaken a number of acclaimed projects, completed in some of the most challenging mental health settings. These units look after people with severe and enduring mental health conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, mania, psychosis, personality disorders and dementia.

We commission world class artists to work with mental health patients and staff in collaborative and responsive workshops. Together, we are radically transforming bleak clinical environments and making them imaginative and thoughtful.

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