LIGHT + TECH 105
This image Burman’s ‘Remembering a Brave New World’ installation at Tate Britain
Right Chila Kumari Singh Burman
PEACOCK, 2020 Chila Kumari Singh Burman (UK)
Peacock was part of the many-faceted, highly colourful neon installation, Remembering A Brave New World, on the exterior of Tate Britain in 2020. Burman is celebrated for her radical feminist practice which examines representation, gender and cultural identity. ‘My Peacock piece explores the bird’s symbolism of re-growth, rejuvenation, beauty and love,’ she says. ‘The peacock is native to the Indian subcontinent, in this way it is also a reference to my Indian heritage.’ Burman works across a wide range of mediums including printmaking, drawing, painting, installation and film. She has gone on to complete high-profile light installation projects for Covent Garden’s historic market stall building, Liverpool Town Hall and Blackpool’s Grade II listed Grundy Art Gallery. She recently featured in Sky Arts’ documentary special entitled ‘Statues Redressed’.
Burman remains one of the first British Asian female artists to have a monograph written about her work, Lynda Nead’s Chila Kumari Burman: Beyond Two Cultures (1995).
chila-kumari-burman.co.uk
THE LOST GIRL, 2020
Kate McMillan (UK)
Below, from left Kate McMillan. The Lost Girl is a film-based installation depicting the character of a cave-dwelling girl
The Lost Girl is an immersive film-based installation centred around the fictional character of a cave-dwelling girl on the east coast of England. Using DH Lawrence’s book of the same name as a starting point, the film narrates the experiences of a young woman seemingly alone in a dystopian future, with only the debris washed up from the ocean to form meaning and language.
The film combines McMillan’s various research interests including the
Anthropocene – the unof icial unit of geologic time that describes the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact – the role of creativity in forming memory and the consequences of neglecting female histories. Based in London, McMillan is the author of the annual report, Representation of Female Artists in Britain, commissioned by the Freelands Foundation.
katemcmillan.net
©TATE 2020
JO MIESZKOWSKI
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