I was recently commissioned by National Archives UK to create some illustrations in response to an oral testimony from someone whose family was displaced in 1946 due to growing tensions in British India.
The Partition of British India occurred in August 1947 when the British government withdrew from India after almost two hundred years of British rule.…
Join me to co-create a live artwork in response to the ‘Journeys Of Empire’ theme. Through this collaborative effort, we hope to learn & share more about the past, & explore how it has shaped our present.…
I was commissioned by the National Archives UK to create a series of illustrations responding to refugee stories for Refugee Week 2020 – the whole process moved me, as it made me think of how it must’ve been for my family during Partition.
“The aim of this year’s programme is to share information about the reality of the refugee experience. The Partition of British India, which led to one of the largest mass migrations in history, contains countless stories and is a fitting way to speak to this experience.…
It’s crazy how you can watch someone on film, you’ve never met them in person, yet they can touch you with their Art in a mad way. I’ve been watching films with Irrfan in them for years but never really acknowledged his greatness until I got older and started to really ‘look / feel’ the content / delivery in things. I came across the film ‘The Lunchbox’ which a friend recommended to me at the start of the year, and which I’ve now watched a good number of times, consequently becoming one of my fave films ever.…
