Final Major Project BA Art & Design 19-20
“To live with difference so as to make it into a creative rather than
a destructive force.”- Stuart Hall ‘Cultural Diversity’ 2008
During the final year of my degree, I used a range of mediums and techniques including collage, digital manipulation and textiles to explore my British-Indian cultural heritage. By specifically using my personal archive, experiences and Mother’s childhood memories in India to inspire my work.
My practice highlighting how it is important in British society today to not only celebrate cultural difference but also to allow other narratives to be told and shared.
'Birmingham, India' - 2019
Collage made up from my own images of Punjab, India, childhood photographs and archived images of Birmingham, England.
Approx. 100cmx100cm
Birmingham, India Digital experiments 2019
Simplistic digital collage experiments, of India and Birmingham.
‘Mum’s archive’ 2019
A collection of my mum's fabrics alongside home photographs.
'A Collection of Blue Gold and Pink' 2019
Scans of childhood photographs alongside several of my mother's chunni's (scarves).
'Generational' 2019
Playing on the idea of culture as generational, working with inherited fabrics, dye sublimation and digital embroidery.
'I learnt how to cook from my mother' 2019-2020
‘I learnt how to cook from my mother’ came about after listening to my Mum’s childhood memories in India and how she learnt to cook from my Nani (Nan). I learnt from her the same recipe of yellow lentil dhal that has been passed down; being taught through watching and not a written recipe. Presenting culture as generational.
Digital embroidery, screen-print, disperse dye and embellishment on dye sublimation print.
74cmx52.5cm
21cmx14.8cm
‘Hand-dyed’ 2020
‘Hand-dyed’ is a collection of indigo dyed cotton.
Inspired by John Bergers’ ‘Ten Dispatches About Place’ and how people carry their heritage within themselves to new places. By using my hands to manipulate and create designs onto the fabric through the ancient method of dyeing. On a material that has a strong history for its relationship between India and Britain.
157cmx120cm
116.5cmx114.5cm
114cmx104cm
‘Motherland’ An Indo Western Collection Spring/Summer 2020
An Indo Western collection, reflecting my experiences in India. Referencing the relationship between the East and West by using the western considered material denim, to speak about Indian narratives and thinking about the ways in which clothing constructs our identities.
55.5cmx59cm (jacket)
53.5cmx54cm (light blue with pink jacket)
43cmx37.5cm (lehenga top)
35cmx86cm (lehenga skirt)
(Digitally constructed images)
A screenshot from my process book, inspired by a fashion lookbook.
Final exhibition space ideas
