EDUCATION
PhD Goldsmiths, University of London, Educational Studies
MPhil History of Art, University of Glasgow Postgraduate Art Teachers’ Certificate, University of London Institute of Education
BA Honours Ceramics, West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, UK
Painting studies with Marguerite Seippel, Geneva, Switzerland International School of Geneva, United Nations International School New York, State primary schools in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 The Potter’s Mirror -The Burrell Collection, Glasgow
2002 Talacchanda -Tramway, Glasgow with Anjana Rajan (dance)
2001 Out of the Blue, Edinburgh
2000 British Council Queen’s Gallery, New Delhi
1987 Sakshi Gallery, Chennai
1986 Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai
1985 Art Heritage, New Delhi
1984 Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS / ART COLLABORATIONS
2023 Sound Seed II, performance with sound by Paul Hyland, Platform, Glasgow 2022 Sound Seed I, performance with Hamshya Rajkumar, The Ignorant Art School 12-Hour Revel, Botanic Gardens Dundee, (Cooper Gallery)
1997 A Gift for India, touring exhibition, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust
1994 Elements of Change, touring exhibition of the Arts Council of Scotland
1992 / 1990 / 1989 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1991 Galerie Dagmar, London
1990 Broadgate Art Week, organised by the Whitechapel Art Gallery
1988 II Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1987 VIth International Triennale India, New Delhi The Sculpted Image- a panorama of contemporary Indian Sculpture, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1980 Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Gallery, London
CONFERENCE PAPERS / PUBLIC TALKS / WORKSHOPS
2023 Curatorial ecosystems, alternative art pedagogies and transformative collective agency. Conversation with Olivier Marboeuf, a trans-disciplinary event at Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, organised by The Ignorant Art School Collective, a research group of the British Art Network.
2022 ‘A Stillness Class- the consciousness of doing’ for The ignorant Art School sit in #2, University of Dundee Cooper Gallery
2021 ‘Differentiating between unity and conformity-a proposal for pedagogy of mutuality in our splintered time’, annual conference of the International Journal of Art and Design Education, online
2020 ‘The Self that Cannot be Othered- the power of the past in the present’ workshop for What’s Ahead What’s Known exhibition, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2017 / 2018 / 2019
Discussion panels Africa in Motion Film Festival, Glasgow- ‘Concerning Violence’ (Göran Olsson 2014), ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ (Isaac Julien 2015), ‘Operation Legacy’ (Olivia Windham Lewis 2012)
2012 ‘Crossing Cultures in “Fleshy Metaphysics”’ paper and dialogue with Christine Battersby, at Engendering Dialogue III: Feminist Philosophy and Pedagogy, three part conference University of Dundee
2011
‘Freedom and Compassion in the Arts Curriculum’, annual conference, International Journal of Art Design Education, University of Chester
2010
‘Towards a Curriculum of Consciousness’, 2010 Canada International Conference on Education, Toronto
2008
‘Love, Truth and the Goddess: the significance in postmodern times of the dualist nature of human perception in Yoruba and Hindu thought’, Association for Cultural Studies, 7th International Crossroads Conference, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
2006 /2007
Strathclyde University Centre for Gender Studies- Moving Stories seminars on Scottish migration histories
2005
University of Leeds Centre for Art Theory History (CentreCATH) on Sringara Rasa in Indian aesthetic theory The Sacred and the Feminine conference
2002
Strathclyde University , Gender Culture Power conference
2001
Exhibition of Madhubani Paintings of Bihar, research and curation, Inspirations Festival, The Arches, Glasgow
2000
‘Somewhere Over the Showcase’, IT and Higher Art workshop series, National Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. Presented with William Nelson at Beyond Multiculturalism conference, Moray House Institute of Education, Edinburgh.
1995
Strathclyde Teachers Advisory Service on strategies for enhancing pupil skills and Inclusive art education
1994
‘Lampshades and Legends’, Bretton Hall University College Leeds Different Perspectives conference on issues of inter-cultural education
1989-95
Talks and workshops linked with exhibitions-Whitechapel Art Gallery and Camden Art Centre, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Fruitmarket Gallery and Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
PEDAGOGIC COLLABORATIONS / RESIDENCIES / FUNDING AWARDS
2022 ‘Self- knowledge and the unity of differentiation, or, when leaves spin’, part of postgraduate seminar led by Jonardon Ganeri, University of Toronto Department of Philosophy, Feb 2022 2020 ‘Contemporary Contexts for Yoruba and Ancient Indian Ideas on Space, Creativity and Self’, ten week course updated for Transmission Gallery Glasgow Freeschool set up during Covid-19 pandemic, Autumn 2020 2017 ‘Voice and Culture: building reflective practices’- Xnational Xarts Xchange produced by Trent Kim. Master class for visiting South Korean performance companies Heung, JDC&Next, All Rounderz with students of Digital Art and Theatre at the University of the West of Scotland
2006
Creative collaborator, ‘The Tempest’ for Shakespeare in the City Festival, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2005
Artist-in-residence, the Burrell Collection, Glasgow
2002-03
Scottish Arts Council National Lottery, and Glasgow City Council funding for Talacchanda Exhibion and Education Project
1989-90
Artist-in-residence, Clapham Pool Arts Workshop, London
1990
Artist-in-residence, Holloway Boys School, London
1987
Workshop of traditional potters and contemporary ceramists, Baroda, India
1985-86
Research Grant, Lalit Kala Akademi- developing high temperature building clay from local materials for ceramic sculpture
TEACHING /LECTURING
Since 2020 Freelance lectures and pedagoic collaborations
2018-2020 Lecturer Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2010-2018 Programme Leader Master of Research in Creative Practices, GSA
2000-2014 Lecturer Forum for Critical Inquiry GSA
2000-2010 Academic Researcher School of Design, GSA
1994-1999 Tutor of Ceramics, GSA
1990-1992 Tutor, London Borough of Lambeth, adult education ceramics
1988-1989 Art Teacher, London Borough of Harrow, Canons High School
1986-1987 Art teacher, Advanced Level, the British School, New Delhi
1983-1984 Art teacher Gyan Bharati School, New Delhi
PUBLICATIONS
2023 ‘The Fish That Flew Through Time And Other Stories’ Mrin Journal of Indian Ceramic Art, issue 2, 2023
Review of Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different, National Gallery London in Art Monthly Issue 466 May 2023 pp 28-29
2022 Film review ‘Yellow Fever’ (Sooun Kim 2019), NOWNESS Asia, June 2022
Conversation with Ashanti Harris- historical and cultural contexts of Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, August 2022
2021
‘The Shoes at my Door’ in Jumbies, published by Panel for Glasgow International 2020, a reflection on hauntology and African presence in the Caribbean and diaspora.
2020 Film review ‘Certainty and its Refractions in Ayla Dmyterko’s Solastalgic Soliloquy’, MAP issue 58, June 2020
2019 ‘Expanding the Curriculum’ Art Monthly No. 432, Dec /Jan 2019-20, pp 6-9
‘Finding the Self in the City of Multitudes’ in Resilience and the City- Art, Education, Urbanism. ELIA, Amsterdam, pp. 143-152
2018 Book: Education as Mutual Translation- A Yoruba and Vedantic Interface for Pedagogy in the Creative Arts, Brill, NL., 291 pages
2010
‘Towards a Curriculum of Consciousness’- in online publication of conference proceedings of the 2010 Canada International Conference on Education. (no longer available)
2007
‘The Feminist Call of the Spiritual/ Erotic Impulse in Indian Art’ chapter eight in The Sacred and the Feminine-Imagination and Sexual Difference, eds. Griselda Pollock and Victoria Sauron, I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, pp 135-149
2004
‘Interdisciplinary approaches to anti-racist education, an introduction to the Talacchanda project’, Journal of Art and Design Education, 23:1 pp42-68
2002
Talacchanda, Glasgow School of Art, exhibition catalogue with commissioned essays (Ed.)
2000
‘Devi Prasad: The Culture of Making’, Ceramic Review, Issue 184
‘Lampshades and Legends’ in conference proceedings Different Perspectives, Bretton Hall University College, Leeds
1990
‘Kashmiri Woodcrafts’ co- authored chapter in Crafts of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, ed. Jaya Jetley, Mapin Publications, Ahmedabad
1989
‘Aaj ke Sambandh Me Mritika Shilpa’ in Adhunik Kala Kosh ed. Vinod Bharadwaj, Sanjeev Prakashan, New Delhi
1984-85
Articles in arts columns of magazines Dinmaan, Link, and the Art Heritage Catalogue