CV

Education

2025 MFA Arts & Humanities, Royal College of Art

2020 Sanskrit (level 1 95%, level 2 95%), Oxford University, OCHS

2007 BA (Hons) English, 2:1 University of Greenwich

Professional Training

2026 Safeguarding Children in Education training v5

2023 Manuscript Illumination with Patricia Lovett MBE

2017 MBA Executive, Chartered Insurance Institute

2012 Cert CII, Chartered Insurance Institute

Public Talks

2026 Windrush Generation: Poetry, Prose and Calypso. Collaboration with Windrush Foundation at Royal Society of Arts

2025 ‘This is not a screening’ in collaboration with London Migration Film Festival

2025 Thrive Art Exhibit, Toronto, Canada

2025 Ghazipur Literature Festival, India

2025 Caribbean Festival, London Museum Docklands

2025 Sustain Lab RCA, Royal College of Art

2025 Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London

2025 Caribbean Voices talk on Celestial Friends, London Museum Docklands

2025 Chair, Screening of BIM (1974), Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre

2024 Interfaith Observance, Woolwich Garrison Church Trust

2024 Yellow Brick Road to Thamesis, Collaboration with Wandsworth Council, Covent Garden Flower Market & St Mary’s Primary School in Battersea, Yoichi Ishida, Vashti Cassinelli and Maria Bacha

2024 Maintaining Indian identity as an ethnic minority, Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre

Publications

“Indian Arrival Day” (2024) The Dodo, Issue 5, Royal College of Art

“A Fresh Perspective” (2014) The Chartered Insurance Institute Journal, Feb /Mar issue, p28-29

“Hope” photography (2013), BBC News.

Exhibitions

2025 – 2027 Caribbean Voices: Shaping Docklands, Museum of London

2024 – 2025 Artists at Work, V&A Museum (collaborative with Jacqui Ramrayka and others)

2025 RCA2025 Final year exhibition, Royal College of Art

2025 Ancestral Utopias, collaboration with Cassidy Conway Cole SustainLab, Royal College of Art

2025 Past Lives, Present Futures, collaboration with Michael Garner, Irina Prentice, Indy Calland and Sarah Lloyd. Bomb Factory Foundation, London

2024 Winter Exhibition, Lloyds Art Group, Lloyds of London

2024 Summer Exhibition Crawley, London

2024 Weaving Spaces, Collab: RCA Spatial Values, Fosters + Fosters, and Build Hollywood

2024 Finding Place, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Crawley

2023 Winter Exhibition, Lloyds Art Group, Lloyds of London

Film Screenings of Madanm Coolie - An Intro (2025):

Ghazipur Literature Festival, India

Thrive Art Exhibit, Toronto, Canada

London Migration Film Festival

Hybrid Experience

2025 to date Community Partner & Cultural Historian, London Museum & GLA Mayor of London

2025 to date Educator, Crofton Junior School, London

1999 – to date Researcher, experience with National Archives UK, St Lucia and Lloyds archives

2017 – 2018 Due diligence on grant recipients, IICF

2017 – 2019 Commercial Property Manager, entire management of 5-storey 19th century building

2010 – 2017 Risk Underwriter, Euler Hermes UK

2007 – 2010 Finance Assistant, Euler Hermes UK

1998 – 1999 Printing operative, News International UK

Jun
2025
Archives of Indenture – Royal College of Art, Battersea, UK

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)

Dec 2024 -
Nov 2025
Featured in ‘Artists at Work’ with Jacqui Ramrayka – V&A Museum, South Kensington
Jan 2025 – 2027
Caribbean Voices: Shaping Docklands Public Trail, London Docklands

Community partner, centred on Caribbean contribution to Docklands community. Commissioned to create ‘Celestial Friends’ (2025) for the trail.

April - May 2025
Mandala for the Future – part of Ancestral Utopias exhibition

(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.

April 2025
Past and Present Futures, Bomb Factory Art Foundation

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).

November 2024
MFA Arts and Humanities Exhibition, Royal College of Art
November 2024
Lloyds Art Group, Autumn Exhibition

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.

July 2024
Summer Exhibition, Visual Artists Sussex

Exhibited a sculpture called Speak up (2024) which was created as part of Spatial Values elective with Rut Blees Luxemburg and Sarah Staton.

June 2024
Weaving Spaces, Spatial Value Project No.4, Royal College of Art

Public art that was circulated around Battersea, in collaboration with Fosters + Fosters, Royal College of Art and Build Hollywood.

June 2024
Yellow Brick Road to Thamesis. Wandsworth Council, London

In collaboration with Wandsworth Council, Royal College of Art, Covent Garden Flower market and St Mary's RC Primary School, Battersea.

March 2024
Finding Place, Contemporary Art Exhibition
December 2023
Lloyds Art Group, Winter Exhibition

Exhibited hand gilded photography, experimental pieces of work

Talks & Residencies

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

Publications

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