Ice Cream Exhibition - Bollywood Style
At the Stephen Lawrence Gallery at the University of Greenwich
August 21 to September 16, 2006
An exhibition combining ice-cream iconography with Bollywood graphics uniquely set in a colourful customised 1960s ice-cream van, is the latest exhibition to be staged at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, at the University of Greenwich .
Candy Pop and Juicy Lucy is celebrated artist Chila Burman’s very own touring gallery, which has been inspired by childhood memories of her father’s ice-cream van (the only one in Liverpool to have a life-size tiger on the roof). The work travels between film, sound and print, treating us to a visual calorie overload en route.
Celia says: “In addition to the van itself, my exhibition presents a new series of prints that look at the packaging and hype of popular ice-cream products, particularly as they become contaminated by the daily bedlam of advertising hyperbole.”
Using ice-cream colours and swirling techniques, Burman’s multi-layered works become a vortex into which everyday images become absorbed and transformed, where everything seems as familiar as it is disturbing and absurd.
Burman is one of Britain ’s leading contemporary artists and her work has been described as "bringing an Asian, working class, feminist approach to a still exclusive art establishment." Candy Pop and Juicy Lucy extends the work that Burman has undertaken to use family portraits in order to construct personal and collective histories concerned with South Asian diasporas.
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The Stephen Lawrence Gallery is in Queen Anne Court , room 077, at the University of Greenwich,
Park Row, Greenwich , London , SE10 9LS.
Open 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Admission is free.