Dr Remi Rana-Allen

Biography

Remi Rana-Allen is a visual artist who investigates the construction of British Indian female identity and ‘the maternal’, as informed by her personal experience. This is specified by being a British born Indian woman whose body maps her identity, its perception and reception by appearance. Of Indian heritage, culturally British not English. Rana-Allen’s practice employs paintings, digital prints, film, and object-based installations, and processes that represent intimacy, transformation, time and touch. Through postcolonial and feminist theory, her contemporary art practice aims to represent the complexities of race, gender inequalities, sexuality, migration and cultural assimilation. The importance of her practice and research is highlighted by ‘the slow dilution of my cultural heritage as it seeps further from my grasp.’ (Rana Allen 2018).