Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist of Indian descent based on the outskirts of Swansea, Wales. I use my practice as a mode of enquiry, using art as both a research methodology and an area of critical reflection. Through processes of investigation, reading, reflection, and material experimentation, I create works that often 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, and is informed by reflections on my personal identity and family histories. These frameworks intersect to create work concerned with connection, belonging, and the politics of inclusion. I am particularly interested in our psychological relationship to each other; how social bonds are formed, sustained, contested, or fractured. At a time of increased polarisation, my practice looks at the tensions between cohesion and division.
Materiality is fundamental to my work. I am interested in 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 can be articulated. My practice tries to negotiate 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. I use my practice as a mode of enquiry, using art as both a research methodology and an area of critical reflection. Through processes of investigation, reading, reflection, and material experimentation, I create works that often 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, and is informed by reflections on my personal identity and family histories. These frameworks intersect to create work concerned with connection, belonging, and the politics of inclusion. I am particularly interested in our psychological relationship to each other; how social bonds are formed, sustained, contested, or fractured. At a time of increased polarisation, my practice looks at the tensions between cohesion and division.
Materiality is fundamental to my work. I am interested in 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 can be articulated. My practice tries to negotiate the dynamic relationship between material, idea, and process, seeking an equilibrium in which each element informs and unsettles the others.
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