Mila's work at V&A in London

"I feel extremely honoured to have my work exhibited in one of the great British museums which holds some of the most significant art treasures from around the world. This must be every artist's dream and I feel very humbled being included in this show."

Mila's work has been selected for a prestigeous show "Mapping the Imagination" which will be open at the VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM in London from 8th of Oct 2007 -27th of April 2008. The exhibition includes the work of some of the most celebrated names of contemporary art, including Christo, Richard Long and Cornelia Parker. In the show, artists have adopted map iconography to express their ideas and experiences of place.

< Other Journeys II. (featured in this show)

In this collage the printed silkscreen on glass suggests travel in real locations but also journeys of the mind. The fragmented map background hints at our disconection from an ancestral sense of space, while the flimsy paper boat expresses the fragility of the self cast adrift in a constantly shifting world.

Click here to visit the V&A website for more information.

Mila appears in 'The Heart of Europe' Magazine.

Excerpt from the magazine:

Mila Judge-Furstova is a Czech artist now living in Great Britain. She has put down strong roots there, hailed as "one of the best and most original graphic artists to have appeared in recent decades," according to the November 2003 issue of the magazine CityLiving.

Even though at the age of 31 Mila Judge-Furstova is still at the beginning of her career, she has already won fifteen international awards. She is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. One of her graphic works adorned the title page of the art magazine Printmaking Today; another was used for the cover of Alan Smith's book Etching. Her works are to be found in the private collections of Vaclav Havel and the British Monarch.

"My work expresses the content of subconscious thought. It does this through mechanisms of symbolic thought as the forerunner of the spoken word. My work is linked to a certain degree with the Surrealists, in particular with their search for beauty in ordinary things," is the way the artist defines her work.

At the present time Mila is artist-in-residence at the Cheltenham Ladies College, where she built up and leads the graphics studio.

Mila exhibiting at the London Art Fair.

Jaggedart is exhibiting at the London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington.

Their stand, G46, will have a striking and diverse range of art including paintings, works on paper, photography, prints, sculpture and 3 dimensional pieces in glass and in paper.

They will be showing works by Peter Abrahams; Sara Beazley; Tracey Bush; Helen Cass; Ricardo Cinalli; Julie Cockburn; Dido Crosby; Paul Hart; Sally Haworth; Tom Henderson; Anderson Inge; Frank Monaco; Charlie Murphy; Cyril Olanier; Stuart Redler; Laura Stocker; Barbara Strasen; Patricia Swannell; Jude Tucker; and of course Mila Judge-Furstova.

I do hope that you will be able to visit.

CUBE BOHEMIA approaches Mila to use piece of her work on a CD cover.

Ensemble Martinu - Rendez-Vous will be out at the end of January 2008.

His CD presents Czech and French music of 20th Century played by Ensemble

Martinu Quartet
Compositions by Ravel, Ibert, Martinu, Kurtz, Riedelbauch and Schmitt
Label: Cube Bohemia
Release date: January 2008
Artists: Ensemble Martinu
Miroslav Matejka - flute, Radka Preislerova - violin, Bledar Zajmi - cello,
Marketa Janackova - piano.

About Mila

Míla Judge-Fürstová is a unique artist printmaker whose works combine both the mythical and historical with personal narratives. Printmaking has a deep history with books and lends itself naturally to telling complex stories. In the “Danae” series the motif of water is explored as a feminine theme suggesting power and release. In “Flight over Sea” and “Flight V” the ideas of escape and the erosion of identity are examined. Perhaps of all the mediums artists use, intaglio printmaking lends itself to self reflection – even to the literal mirror like quality of a copper plate. Although in many previous works Míla has suggested her own presence she is now depicting herself as a protagonist within the images.

The fascination that her work inspires is very much a product of that difficult to achieve synthesis of technical virtuosity and poetic spirit. What we can take from work like this is something as profound as an encounter with another person.

Professor Chris Orr R.A. September 2007

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