Had the pleasure of facilitating a workshop session with theatre maker Sudhar Bhuchar for her ‘Child of the Divide’ play based on the Partition of India (1947) for members at the Rose Community Clubroom, Ascalon Street, SW8 4AX
As a reference point, I shared some illustrations based on oral recordings from victims of Partition, which were commissioned by the National Archives UK back in 2023 for an educational resource pack for UK schools.…
Dad was born in Nakuru, Kenya in 1944 & Mum in Punjab, India in 1950. They got married in 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya. They arrived in the UK in 1972 & started their life together in a house flat in Wandsworth, London. Being outsiders in an unknown land, they adapted & adopted new ways of living, but never forgot their Sikh faith & found a sense of community in a local gurdwara (Sikh temple) which was being built around the corner from where they lived.…
I recently received a commission to design a logo for the Rita Keegan Foundation which was nice, as it allowed me to re-connect with my graphic design roots and create something meaningful for an artist / legacy project.
I enjoyed the process of researching more into Rita Keegan & her practice over the years, working across print, photography, film, sound, textiles & installation – someone who was quite a trail blazer co-founding the Brixton Art Gallery & becoming an important figure in the Black Arts Movement. …
“We were chucked out on the street, when I was probably 5,6 or 7, lots of us were you know, working class families, didn’t have toys in the house or books to read or paper to draw on, everyone was chucked out onto the street. And we had a box of chalk for hopscotch, and about 5 balls, 3 to juggle, juggle on the wall and we had marbles, we called them ‘Ollies’, one phat one, and lots and lots of them.…
