Community building, collaborating with organisations like Indian Heritage of St Lucia, Ameena Gafoor Institute, Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre and Cutlass Magazine to reach out to people on social media. Creation of a new archive with 307+ family surnames with indentured heritage collected with photos from the community.
Premiere screening of short film Madanm Coolie – an Intro (2025)
Community partner, centred on Caribbean contribution to Docklands community. Commissioned to create ‘Celestial Friends’ (2025) for the trail.
(with SustainLab RCA; a community platform at RCA for students to explore sustainability in their practice)
We invited our RCA community to build a living mandala together, as a ritual of regeneration, to focus on our connection to nature, growing intentionally imperfectly forward.
Exhibition in collaboration with four artists from the Royal College of Art – a former psychotherapist (Sarah Lloyd), a former news journalist (Irina Prentice) and a former CIA political analyst (Michael Garner).
Exhibited oil on canvas Acts of God (2024) which was created using the ship model my ancestors travelled on and a distorted image of the shipping agents label that transported them too.
Exhibited a sculpture called Speak up (2024) which was created as part of Spatial Values elective with Rut Blees Luxemburg and Sarah Staton.
Public art that was circulated around Battersea, in collaboration with Fosters + Fosters, Royal College of Art and Build Hollywood.
In collaboration with Wandsworth Council, Royal College of Art, Covent Garden Flower market and St Mary's RC Primary School, Battersea.
Exhibited hand gilded photography, experimental pieces of work
Artist Talk | Bomb Factory Art Foundation | 2025
Talk on ‘Maintaining Indian identity as an ethnic minority’ | Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre | 2024
Chair | South Asian Diaspora fashion | Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre | 2025
Chair | Screening of BIM (1974) and discussion | Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre | 2025
Indian Arrival Day’, The Dodo, Royal College of Art, 2024
A Fresh Perspective’, The Chartered Insurance Institute Journal, Feb / March 2014, p.28-29
‘Hope’ photography published by BBC, 2013
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