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Last year I featured on the ITV Anglia News, in a piece commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Partition.
You can view this by clicking on the link below
NEWS, UPDATES
and EVENTS
Find out all my latest news, updates and details of events
Last year I featured on the ITV Anglia News, in a piece commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Partition.
You can view this by clicking on the link below
BIG NEWS
JANUARY 2023
The Whitworth have acquired one of my works - All My Sorrows - for their permanent collection. It is on display until June 2023 as part of their Exchanges exhibition.
Who knew that when my Mumma gave me dozens of my Dad’s hankies when she was decluttering, that I would end up producing a work that is now hanging in one of the galleries that I have always wanted to show in? It means particularly much because this work is about my Dad’s experiences at the 1947 Partition of India and the difficulties of settling here only 17 years later. Dad never spoke about what happened to him and his family at Partition and I have only just started to piece together these stories. Making this work made me feel very connected to him. I have thought a lot about how everyday objects, which we don’t find in museums and galleries, carry precious memories for us. Dad was very dapper and always carried a crisp white hankie in the top pocket of his suit.
BIG NEWS
JANUARY 2023
The Whitworth have acquired one of my works - All My Sorrows - for their permanent collection. It is on display until June 2023 as part of their Exchanges exhibition.
Who knew that when my Mumma gave me dozens of my Dad’s hankies when she was decluttering, that I would end up producing a work that is now hanging in one of the galleries that I have always wanted to show in? It means particularly much because this work is about my Dad’s experiences at the 1947 Partition of India and the difficulties of settling here only 17 years later. Dad never spoke about what happened to him and his family at Partition and I have only just started to piece together these stories. Making this work made me feel very connected to him. I have thought a lot about how everyday objects, which we don’t find in museums and galleries, carry precious memories for us. Dad was very dapper and always carried a crisp white hankie in the top pocket of his suit.
BIG NEWS
JANUARY 2023
The Whitworth have acquired one of my works - All My Sorrows - for their permanent collection. It is on display until June 2023 as part of their Exchanges exhibition.
Who knew that when my Mumma gave me dozens of my Dad’s hankies when she was decluttering, that I would end up producing a work that is now hanging in one of the galleries that I have always wanted to show in? It means particularly much because this work is about my Dad’s experiences at the 1947 Partition of India and the difficulties of settling here only 17 years later. Dad never spoke about what happened to him and his family at Partition and I have only just started to piece together these stories. Making this work made me feel very connected to him. I have thought a lot about how everyday objects, which we don’t find in museums and galleries, carry precious memories for us. Dad was very dapper and always carried a crisp white hankie in the top pocket of his suit.
COUNTED
COUNTED
This work was shown at the New Art Exchange Open last year and won the New Artist Prize!
The first of a triptych. This work was inspired by reading a Guardian article about the number of people who have died trying to reach sanctuary. In the last 25 years- over 34,500 people are known to have died but the figure is probably much greater because whole boatloads of people have drowned but are not recorded. Here, each perforation represents a person who has died, each gold stitch 100 and each red, 1000 people. The holes are made with a book tool to refer to the fact that I'm telling a story and each individual had their story. I have made over 36000 holes as the number rises all the time and the space at the top is left for future migrants. The deep sea fishing weights at the bottom refer to the many migrants who have drowned. Cargo- about the 39 Vietnamese people who died in Essex, and Kismet , reflecting on the fact that we owe our circumstances to Chance.
COUNTED
This work was shown at the New Art Exchange Open last year and won the New Artist Prize!
The first of a triptych. This work was inspired by reading a Guardian article about the number of people who have died trying to reach sanctuary. In the last 25 years- over 34,500 people are known to have died but the figure is probably much greater because whole boatloads of people have drowned but are not recorded. Here, each perforation represents a person who has died, each gold stitch 100 and each red, 1000 people. The holes are made with a book tool to refer to the fact that I'm telling a story and each individual had their story. I have made over 36000 holes as the number rises all the time and the space at the top is left for future migrants. The deep sea fishing weights at the bottom refer to the many migrants who have drowned. Cargo- about the 39 Vietnamese people who died in Essex, and Kismet , reflecting on the fact that we owe our circumstances to Chance.
IMPRINTED | St Albans Museums
NOVEMBER 2018 - FEB 2019
I had an exhibition called Traces , at St Albans museum alongside Jane Glynn. We each presented solo exhibitions exploring the experience of time and memory, sharing personal autobiographical subjects through sensitive paintings, prints and associated ephemera. My work was about my experience of cancer and my family history of Partition, looking at how life leaves it traces on us, giving us new maps to navigate by.
IMPRINTED | St Albans Museums
IMPRINTEDSt Albans Museums
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56 SECONDS
56 SECONDS
I started my MA in 2018 interested in excavating my experience of cancer and reconnecting with my Indian heritage. This led to conversations with my mother about her experience of Partition and its impact on our family, leading to an awareness of how life leaves its traces upon us - emotional and physical.
Understanding the reverberations of Partition on my own history caused me to ponder on the current migration crisis, where, according to the UNHCR, 16.2 million people were forcibly displaced
in 2017; on the roots of this wave of displacement and the damage caused by imposed borders.
'56 SECONDS'
The work pictured here was made in response to discovering that every 2 seconds someone in the world is forcibly displaced. These 28 monoprints represent how many people will be displaced in the next 56 Seconds. They have common elements - barbed wire, explosions, shattered landscapes, but each is unique just as each refugee's story is unique but part of a larger global crisis.
I started my MA in 2018 interested in excavating my experience of cancer and reconnecting with my Indian heritage. This led to conversations with my mother about her experience of Partition and its impact on our family, leading to an awareness of how life leaves its traces upon us - emotional and physical.
Understanding the reverberations of Partition on my own history caused me to ponder on the current migration crisis, where, according to the UNHCR, 16.2 million people were forcibly displaced in 2017; on the roots of this wave of displacement and the damage caused by imposed borders.
'56 SECONDS'
The work pictured here was made in response to discovering that every 2 seconds someone in the world is forcibly displaced. These 28 monoprints represent how many people will be displaced in the next 56 Seconds. They have common elements - barbed wire, explosions, shattered landscapes, but each is unique just as each refugee's story is unique but part of a larger global crisis.
