2019

Memory of Land

I embarked on a research project across the Punjab region of India and the holy city of Amritsar to create a new body of work that describes the hundred years of Jallianwala Bagh, for New Art Exchange gallery in Nottingham, UK, in 2019. The installation, combining photography and digitally manipulated paintings, remembered the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre of 1919 which saw British Indian Army troops fire upon unarmed Indian civilians who were assembled for a peaceful protest and to honour the Sikh festival of Baisakhi.

Visiting the site, and interviewing local communities, this project highlights the psychology of surviving grief through the memory of land; land being the only witness left 100 years on from this deplorable act.

More details here.