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A decorative gorilla sculpture/statue wearing a fedora-style hat. The gorilla's surface is covered in vibrant, psychedelic patterns, symbols, and imagery including eyes, planets, clocks, and various colorful designs. It's positioned in a seated pose on a white pedestal.
Talks & Lectures

In Conversation with 
Chila Kumari Singh Burman

Friday 24 January 2025
2pm – 3pm
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Join Chila Kumari Singh Burman in conversation with Louisa Buck and Nicole Polonsky

This special event marks the last weekend of our major exhibition Chila Kumari Singh Burman: Spectacular Diversions. Chila will be in conversation with writer and art critic Louisa Buck and artist Nicole Polonsky. The discussion will focus on Chila’s extraordinary artistic career and shed light on many of the new and recent works included in her exhibition at Compton Verney.

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Free with a valid day ticket or membership

About the Speakers

 

Chila Kumari Singh Burman is one of the most exciting artists working in the UK today. Since the mid-1980s she has been exploring the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity in paintings, installations, photography, printmaking and film. In her more recent works, this theme has taken on a new power and vibrancy. Challenging stereotypical assumptions of Asian women, her work is informed by popular culture, Bollywood, fashion, found objects, the celebration of femininity; self-portraiture exploring the production of my own sexuality and dynamism; the relationship between popular culture and high art; gender and identity politics.

Louisa Buck is a renowned art critic and contemporary art correspondent for The Art Newspaper. Buck has written on contemporary art for a range of different publications and she is the author or co-author of books on contemporary art market including Moving Targets 2: A User’s Guide to British Art Now, Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector’s Handbook and Commissioning Contemporary Art. A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists.

Nicole Polonsky is a visual artist who seeks out latent meaning in found objects and texts and articulates her responses in thought-provoking ways. Nicole is especially drawn to subjects that have been overlooked, marginalised, erased or considered valueless. Nicole’s practice encompasses editioned prints, bookworks and multiples; drawing and unique object-making; film, installations and performance; writing for publication.