OUTPUT gallery works exclusively with creatives from or based in Merseyside. For this episode, we speak to Chila Kumari Singh Burman (b. Bootle, 1957). The first half of this conversation looks at her relationship to the city, her education between Southport, Leeds and the Slade School of Art, and her family's ice cream van. Then, we discuss her exhibition at OUTPUT gallery and each of the films she has included in a showreel of moving image work from her Dad acting in 'Kamla' to montages of ice cream iconography and artwork that seeks to readdress the image of South Asian women. Her exhibition is on from August 6-30, but if you cannot make it down to the space or you are shielding, we hope this podcast allows you to engage with Burman's work and ideas from afar. 

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Host: Gabrielle de la Puente

Artist: Chila Kumari Singh Burman / chila-kumari-burman.co.uk / @chilaburman / @CKburman

Contact: outputgallery.com / [email protected] / @outputgallery

Jingle: Michael Lacey / michael-lacey.co.uk