A few words about my work
A thread through my work is a striving to make visible the magical spark of life in what we may experience as mundane, make explicit the divine within the ‘ordinary’.
My immediate experience is from within a female body, and in my experience of the physical presence of life around me.
I do not belong to a culturally defined box.
My mother is from India, ‘Anglo-Indian’, a mixture of Indian, Portuguese, and British. My father is ‘White British’, a mixture of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman.
My work aims to transcend culturally confined definitions of ‘self’, exploring life and the experience of living, in a synthesis of cultural languages and meanings.
I find inspiration in archetypal tribal and folk art traditions from across the globe, and traditional materials of women’s domestic creativity.
The life within energy and matter puts them into perpetual transformation, passing through magically seamless ‘death’, re-manifesting in different form. My work is a part of that process.
I select media and techniques that feel appropriate, affecting them through my creative activity, seeking integrity of intention and material, to create new expression and physical form.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2012 ‘The Moving House Art Sale’ - An Open House Art Sale, Islington, London
2007‘Conception Cake Café’ - An Open House Edible Art Experience
2006‘Mandalas and Mandorlas’. - The Literary Cafe, Islington, London
2005Manor Gardens Organic Cafe, Islington, London
2004‘Sliced Fruit’ - Oranges and Lettuce Organic Juice Cafe, Islington, London
2004PilatesArt, Hampstead, London
Two woman shows
2011‘Eve’s Pursuit’ - Islington Arts Factory
2010‘Goldilocks meets Pandora’ - Islington Arts Factory
2010‘The Garden’ Islington Exhibits Festival - collaboration with musician Vanessa Vie,
Park life Café, Islington
Group Exhibitions
2012‘Mixed-Other’ an Exhibiton by Artists of Mixed-Heritage and Mixed-Ethniciity - Curator, and Participating Artist, Islington Arts Factory
2011‘And Now for Another One’ - Brent Artists Resource, Willesden Library Centre
2008‘Representations of Identity’, Women’s Art Movement, Islington Arts Factory
2006 ‘Distributing Dictionary Definitions’
Performance Event, Peace Camp Exhibition, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
2006 ‘Open’ Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park, London
Education Projects
Many years ago I was a Secondary School Art Teacher. My interest in education, and the contribution of art and creative thinking to the whole curriculum, continues still.
Over the last 10 years I have been the lead artists in a range of school based projects, foundation stage, primary and secondary level, mainly mosaics for school sites and public spaces.
My approach focuses on ensuring that every child involved in a project, regardless of ability, genuinely contributes to the design and the creation of any final outcome.
In addition to my school-based projects I have delivered, and coordinated programmes of gallery based workshops. I have led primary teachers practical hands-on INSET sessions on ways of using artists work to support art work with children. I have worked with ‘excluded’ teenagers, and for the last few years I have also been teaching adult drawing courses and evening classes.