
Míla was born in 1975 in the Czech Republic. She came to Britain in 1996 to study a BA (HONS) course in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Gloucestershire. Following graduation she was the only student from the course that year to have been offered a place to study at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2000, Míla completed her 7 year full-time MA course in Fine Art, English and Pedagogy at the famous Charles University in Prague for which she had studied simultaneously with her courses in Britain. As she graduated from the Royal College of Art she was awarded six major awards for her artwork and firmly established herself as an artist in London.
In 2001, Míla was selected to become a Research Fellow at the University of Gloucestershire. She taught there between 2001 and 2002. During this time she was elected for, and became a member of the Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers in London; the society's youngest member. Presently, Míla is the first Artist in Residence at the Cheltenham Ladies' College where she has built and runs an Etching studio for the pupils. At the same time she works as a visiting lecturer for Coventry University.
Míla Judge-Furstová exhibits her work widely in Britain and abroad. Her art can be found in private as well as public collections, including that of Her Majesty the Queen, the Sultan of Brunei, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Ashmolean Museum of Art in Oxford. In 2004, Míla has been awarded two major prizes for her work. The Curwen Prize from the Mall Galleries, London, and the London Print Studio Prize at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. She has also received a nomination for the overall winner of Grafika Roku, Print of the Year 2004 in Prague. Recently, her work generated great media response at the show of Contemporary Czech Printmaking which took place in Costa Rica profiling 10 artists.
The ideas within Míla's work originate deep in the artist's psyche. They embrace and mirror everyday experience entwined together with myths, tales and dreams. She invites her audience to step into labyrinths of imagination whilst encouraging play with potential meanings within her art. Míla's work is executed largely in the medium of etching. This process has important qualities that compliment her way of visual thinking. The element of surprise in this technique results in a creative and sometimes unpredictable dialogue between the work and the artist.