20/20 meet the artists: Cora Sehgal Cuthbert

"I’m a multidisciplinary artist working across various media such as film, sculpture, print, photography and installation - I also facilitate/produce community art projects and workshops. My practice explores the intersections between the personal, the cultural, and a universal spirituality and humanity. Through this, I aim to expand my own and the audience’s worldview, to encourage the sharing of stories, and to encourage the recognition of the beauty and love within our own everyday lives. Specific themes I’ve recently explored include ideas of home, immigration, faith, grief, desire and disability."

"I think decolonising art involves challenging ideas of ownership/power, disrupting structures, and being honest. No matter what themes I’m exploring, I think my practice always aims to take this approach. Hopefully the 20/20 project will allow me to deepen this approach more.

"I hope it also allows me to explore themes like family/heritage/home in all their complexities and without cliched expectations often enforced upon the work of non-white/mixed-raced artists dealing with such subjects.

"I wanted to work with The Herbert because I have connections to Coventry. My dad’s from there and my grandad was a parish priest of Stoke Aldermoor. My mum’s family are Punjabi Indian and were displaced during Partition. They moved from India to London but lots of Punjabis came to Coventry and the Indian Workers Association, which raised awareness of India’s struggle for independence from British rule, was set up there."