Chila Kumari Burman

Chila Kumari Burman was born in Liverpool and grew up in a working-class Liverpudlian community, part of a Hindu-Punjabi family. In her work she takes her own image in an ever-expanding repertoire of provocative and active female identities using installation art, prints and photography as medium. She has exhibited widely in Europe, Canada, Pakistan, South Africa and Cuba. In the 1980s she was part of two important exhibitions of black women artists' work 'Black Women Time Now' and 'The Thin Black Line'.