VIRTUAL 'Inter-Worlds: Transcultural Hybridity in Art Talk Series'

Inter Worlds: Transcultural Hybridity in Art project explores decolonization of the curriculum and the museum, and how the transcultural contributes to contemporary art in its production and reception, in art colleges, museums, galleries and communities.

The event is chaired by Jasmir Creed, PhD researcher, joined by Professor Sharon Morris, at the Slade. There will be an opportunity to participate in a Q&A session after the presentations.

Raksha Patel will present her work as an artist, writer, socially engaged practitioner and lecturer. Raksha Patel’s paintings look at locality, exploring recent histories of migration and diaspora. With imagery deriving from personal archives that centre upon British South Asian life in the 1970s, she draws attention to class, cultural difference and the less seen. She is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art and co-leads ‘British Asian Visual Art Post Cool Britannia’ a research project for British Art Network (Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre funded by Arts Council England 2021 to present).

Raksha Patel (b.1972, Leicester) studied MFA Painting at The Slade School of Art (1998). Selected exhibitions: Stellatus Re-Visited, Site Gallery (2019); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (2019 and 2020); Home and Unhome, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing (2020); Painting Now, Studio One Gallery (2017); Lives, Loves and Loss, National Trust, Fenton House, (2016); The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery (2015); Forget-Me-Knot, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery (2013); Tradition and the Passing Down of Culture, Pump House Gallery, (2013); We were Trying to Make Sense, 1 Shantiroad, Bangalore (2013); Jerwood Drawing Prize (2011); The Mausoleum of Lost Objects, inIVA, (2008); Creative Connections, The Whitechapel Gallery (2005).

Permindar Kaur will talk of her work as a sculpture/installation artist, whose approach to art is playful, using childlike objects to explore the territory of cultural identity, home and belonging. She will consider her early career in the 90’s from her MA in Glasgow School of Art where she contributed to Eddie Chamber’s show Four x 4, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1992) and the BBC Billboard Art Project (1992), British Art Show 4 (1995) and projects including At Home With Art (Tate Britain, 2000 & touring), and recent shows Interlopers, (UH Art Gallery, Hatfield, 2016) and Home (HS Projects, London, 2020/21). She is currently working on a new project for The ArtHouse, Wakefield, expanding on the theme of home.

Permindar Kaur has exhibited internationally in major solo and group exhibitions. Recent solo shows include HOME, 5 Howick Place, London (2020-21); Hiding Out, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham (2014). Major group exhibitions include Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, YSP & UK tour (2021-23); Ikon in the 90’s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2021); Animals & Us, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2018); At Home with Art, Tate, London (2000); Flexible Co-existence, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan (1999); Pictura Britannica, Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (1997); British Art Show 4, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff (1995).

Jai Chuhan will present her practice as a painter within the contemporary transcultural and art history. She creates expressionistic paintings in depictions of the body and portraiture that often show an isolated figure in room-like spaces, an arena for exploring themes such as love, inspired by her position as an Indian-born British artist. The images suggest psychological tensions within symbioses of male and female, home and unhome. She uses fluid layers of vivid colour to depict the body as politicized territory, focussed or blurrily glimpsed, in painting that ‘unfolds and reveals itself into a configuration that expresses a female gaze’.

Jai Chuhan is an Indian-born British artist. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and is a Professor Emerita at Liverpool John Moores University. Her paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally including Sweden, Italy, China, Turkey and in the UK at venues including Tate Liverpool; Barbican, London; The Lowry, Salford; Ikon, Birmingham; Arnolfini, Bristol; Pitshanger Gallery, London; Watermans Art Centre, London; Liverpool Biennial; and HOME for Asia Triennial Manchester. Her paintings and drawings are in held in public collections including Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool; Arts Council Collection and Tate.

Jasmir Creed is a practice led PhD researcher at the Slade School of Fine Art. She explores alienation and the transcultural in paintings of people in urban non-places or iconic historical sites, informed by her identity as a British South Asian artist. Solo exhibitions of paintings by Jasmir Creed include Urban Forest at Delta House Studios, London 2017; Dystopolis at Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool 2018 with catalogue distributed by Liverpool University Press. Group exhibitions include Asia Triennial Manchester 2018, Home and Unhome at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China, 2020 and Art Contact, Istanbul Art Fair, Turkey 2021.

The Inter-Worlds talk series is supported by Institute of Advanced Studies and by the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London.

Image: Raksha Patel The Yard 2021 oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm