Nimai Chatterji was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), British India (now India) in 1933, where he later studied Bengali literature. Chatterji immigrated to London, England in the mid-1950s in pursuit of further education and studied at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts. During his time in London and travelling across Europe, as an interviewer for the BBC World Service, Chatterji corresponded with many international avant garde artists, eventually amassing the Chatterji Collection, now held at Tate archives, and which has become the most substantial archive relating to avant-garde art in Britain.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/nimai-chatterji