Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist of Indian descent based on the outskirts of Swansea, Wales. My practice operates as a sustained mode of enquiry, positioning art as both a research methodology and a site of critical reflection. Through iterative processes of investigation, reading, reflection, and material experimentation, I develop works that resist definitive closure. Rather than discrete conclusions, these works function as provisional manifestations — temporal pauses within an ongoing trajectory of thinking and making.
My research draws upon critical theory, postcolonial discourse, and migration studies, informed by reflections on personal identity and familial histories. These frameworks intersect to generate a body of work concerned with connection, belonging, and the politics of inclusion. I am particularly interested in the psychological and affective dimensions of relationality: how social bonds are formed, sustained, contested, or fractured. In an era characterised by intensified global connectivity alongside ideological polarisation, my practice interrogates the tensions between cohesion and division. I am compelled by the structures — visible and invisible — that operate as social adhesive, as well as those that enforce separation.
Materiality is fundamental to my work giving attention to the semiotics of materials and their capacity to accrue, shift, or destabilise meaning across time and context. Processes of transformation — whether through patination, displacement, layering, or re-situation — become conceptual devices through which broader questions of history, migration, and identity are articulated. My practice continually negotiates the dynamic relationship between material, idea, and process, seeking an equilibrium in which each element informs and unsettles the others.
I am a multidisciplinary artist of Indian descent based on the outskirts of Swansea, Wales. My practice operates as a sustained mode of enquiry, positioning art as both a research methodology and a site of critical reflection. Through iterative processes of investigation, reading, reflection, and material experimentation, I develop works that resist definitive closure. Rather than discrete conclusions, these works function as provisional manifestations — temporal pauses within an ongoing trajectory of thinking and making.
My research draws upon critical theory, postcolonial discourse, and migration studies, informed by reflections on personal identity and familial histories. These frameworks intersect to generate a body of work concerned with connection, belonging, and the politics of inclusion. I am particularly interested in the psychological and affective dimensions of relationality: how social bonds are formed, sustained, contested, or fractured. In an era characterised by intensified global connectivity alongside ideological polarisation, my practice interrogates the tensions between cohesion and division. I am compelled by the structures — visible and invisible — that operate as social adhesive, as well as those that enforce separation.
Materiality is fundamental to my work giving attention to the semiotics of materials and their capacity to accrue, shift, or destabilise meaning across time and context. Processes of transformation — whether through patination, displacement, layering, or re-situation — become conceptual devices through which broader questions of history, migration, and identity are articulated. My practice continually negotiates the dynamic relationship between material, idea, and process, seeking an equilibrium in which each element informs and unsettles the others.
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