Raksha Patel
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Biography
Raksha Patel (b.1972, Leicester) studied MFA Painting at The Slade School of Art (1998).
Patel works as an artist, writer, socially engaged practitioner and lecturer. She worked for the Learning Department at Tate Britain (1999-2011); The Learning Department of the British Museum (2015-2020) as an Artist in Residence at Whitechapel Gallery (2005) and at The Pitzhanger Manor (2013).
She has two decades of teaching with a focus on inclusivity, anti-racism, and decolonising art-histories. These topics have been unpicked and navigated through using gallery and museum collections that act as levers to springboard ‘difficult’ conversations.
The under-representation of works made my Black British and British South-Asian visual artists in UK public art collections led to the research project ‘British Asian Visual Art Post Cool Britannia’ for British Art Network (Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre funded by The Arts Council England) (2021 to present).
Her drawings and paintings focus upon the lived experiences of the British South-Asian diaspora, migration histories and the nuanced nature of identity. The imagery in her work derives from in archives (both personal and public) that is merged with remembered accounts, which are re-enacted and photographed before translating into painting. Layered with imagery of the changing architectural landscape and natural spaces, her work intersects with gentrification and climate change from post-colonial and Eastern spiritual perspective.
Her work is in both private and public collections.
- Selected exhibitions: A Radical Decade, Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s, Touchstones Rochdale (2023), Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2023), Goddesses of Kings Cross, CSM Museum & Study Collection Gallery (2022) Home and Unhome, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing (2020) Stellatus Re-Visited, Site Gallery (2019) The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (2019 and 2020) Painting Now, Studio One Gallery (2017) Lives, Loves and Loss, National Trust, Fenton House, (2016) The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery (2015), Forget-Me-Knot, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery (2013), Tradition and the Passing Down of Culture, Pump House Gallery, (2013) We were Trying to Make Sense, 1 Shantiroad, Bangalore (2013) Jerwood Drawing Prize (2011) The Mausoleum of Lost Objects, inIVA, (2008), Creative Connections, The Whitechapel Gallery (2005).
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