CV
Shortlisted:
2024 New Art Exchange Contemporary Open Artists from the Global Ethnic Majority
2024 Nominated for Bertha Artivism Award
2021 The Janome Fine Art Textiles Award
2021 The Whitworth Art Fund New Collecting Award - British South Asian Women Artists working with textiles. Manchester University
Awards:
2025 Chelsea Camberwell Wimbledon-University of the Arts London, Research Fund
2022 British Art Network, Tate and Paul Mellon Centre Seminar Award
2022 Arts Council England DYCP - Develop Your Creative Practice
2021 a-n Time Space Money
2019 The Scott Mead Award British School at Rome Italy
Solo Exhibitions:
2024/25 Phoenix Exeter. Swan Song: sing her to me Exeter
2024 Phoenix Art Space. Swan Song: sing her to me Brighton
2019 The Triangle Gallery. HOLES Chelsea, London
2016 The Window Gallery, Seven Years of This Buckinghamshire
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2025 Re-Membering South Asian Feminist Poetics Phoenix Art Space. Brighton / Parkside Yards. Southall
2024 Contemporary Open. New Art Exchange. Nottingham (May – Sept)
2023 Curator: ChART an exhibition, performance and panel discussion. Triangle Gallery, Chelsea, London
2023 Zari Sona Moti: Glitter Gold Pearl. Darl.e and the Bear. Oxford
2022 I-Solation Project Series 3: Recontact. Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. Turkey
2021 I-Solation Project Series 2: Recontact. Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. Turkey
2021 Displace, BLOC Members Show, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2021 The Other Art Fair, 20/20 A Brief Survey. The Truman Brewery, London
2021 Discursivity II The Triangle Gallery, Chelsea, London
2021 The Festival of Quilts NEC Birmingham
2021 The Knitting and Stitching Show - Alexandra Palace, London and Convention Centre Harrogate
2021 I-solation Project Series: I-SOLATED CONTACT - Art Contact Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair. Travelling to Çankaya Contemporary Art Center. Turkey
2021 Fantasy of having a Trailer Wagon all to Myself - Gallery46, Whitechapel
2021 Patterns of Migration: Storytelling through clothing and textiles. online
2021 Love Thy Neighbour - The Asia Triennial Manchester Poetry Library, Manchester Metropolitan University
2020 Discursivity Camberwell Space, London
2019 The Portico Show British School at Rome, Rome. Italy
2016 Collective Show Terrencina, Naples. Italy
2012 United Front London Print Studios, London
2012 United Front Red Shed, Buckinghamshire
2012 Collective Show The Rose Garden, Buckinghamshire
2011 Collective Show The Rose Garden, Buckinghamshire
Community Engagement:
2025 Parkside Yards, Southall. Workshops for South Asian women
2022 Firstsite. Colchester. Workshops for families on low incomes
2022 Forward Culture. Mentoring young South Asian women
2022 Firstsite. Colchester. Community day
2022 Southall, London. Artists Heritage Tour archived on the Mayor of London website
Events, Publications & Media:
2025 Selector Exeter Phoenix Contemporary Open
2025 Swan Song: sing her to me Roundtable at Exeter Phoenix in collaboration with the Exeter University, The WATU Project Nairobi
2024 RadioReverb Interview https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioReverb/tuesday-live-in-brighton-972024-on-radioreverb-with-melita-dennett/ (start 11.05)
2024 Swan Song: sing her to me Roundtable at Phoenix Art Space Brighton in collaboration with the University of Sussex, Exeter University, The WATU Project Nairobi and TrAIN research centre University of the Arts London
2024 Panel Talk: In conversation with Saroj Patel and Malinda Kaur at Orleans House Gallery.
2024 Practitioner Lecture Camberwell College of Art. MA Students.
2023 Guest Lecture University of Nairobi. Art Design and Architecture Department
2023 ChART Exhibition
2023 Artist Presentation Faculty of Art History and Visual Culture and The Centre for Imperial and Global History. Exeter University
2022 Cha publication from BL&ME. Editor
2022 Artist Presentation Interworlds: Transcultural Hybridity in Art. The Slade School
2021 Artist Talk with Tatiana De Stemple Curator Gallery 46 Whitechapel
2019 BL&ME Brown Leaders and Makers Exist - Online launch
2019 Featured Artist Online publication Bespoke Framing
2019 The Mead Report Online Publication.
2019 Summer at the BSR Online Blog
2019 Birthday Boy - Associate Producer
2016 DMM & FSH Conference Buckinghamshire New University
2016 Ethics Presentation Buckinghamshire New Uni & Bath Spa University
Member:
Artist Trustee at Phoenix Art Space Brighton
CVAN South-East (Contemporary Visual Arts Network) Vice Chair Steering Group representing artists of the Global Ethnic Majority
Magdalen Road Studios Oxford
Associate Fellow at TrAIN - Transnational Art Identity and Nation Research Centre UAL
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Teaching:
Mentor PhD Candidates at Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon UAL
Tutor Educators’ Republic China
Adjunct Lecturer University of Nairobi. Art Design and Architecture
Lecturer MA Pathways Camberwell University of the Arts London
Lecturer BA Fine Art Chelsea University of the Arts London