Curator talk: A Bell Rings Across The Valley
01 May 2022
Image: Shivanjani Lal, 2020. Photo by Jacquie Manning, courtesy Parramatta Artists’ Studios.
Image: Shivanjani Lal, 2020. Photo by Jacquie Manning, courtesy Parramatta Artists’ Studios.
When
01 May 2022
Sunday, 2-3:30pm (AEST)
Region
Metropolitan
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair access
Price
Free, bookings required
Join curator, Shivanjani Lal as she presents the works of five artists who have been invited from across South Asia and its Diaspora to speak of complex experiences of identity, heritage and change.
A Bell Rings Across the Valley brings together works by artists Ashfika Rahman (Bangladesh), Indu Antony (India), Sheelasha Rajbhandari (Nepal), Devika Bilimoria (Australia) and Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmar) and asks the questions
What does Contemporary Photography look like in South Asia? What stories are being told?
Shivanjani Lal is a Fijian-Australian artist and curator. Her work explores personal grief to account for ancestral loss. Exploring narratives of indenture and migratory histories from the Indian and Pacific oceans, works uses story-telling, objects and video to account for lost histories and cede futures for healing. She is the recipient of the 2019 Create New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, was a 2020 Studio artist at Parramatta Artists Studios and the 2020 Georges Mora Fellow. Lal’s work has been shown and curated work in Australia, New Zealand, India, United Kingdom, Barbados and France.
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Speaker
Shivanjani Lal (AU / FIJI)
Shivanjani Lal is a Fijian-Australian artist and curator. Her work explores personal grief to account for ancestral loss. Exploring narratives of indenture and migratory histories from the Indian and Pacific oceans, works uses story-telling, objects and video to account for lost histories and cede futures for healing. She is the recipient of the 2019 Create New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, was a 2020 Studio artist at Parramatta Artists Studios and the 2020 Georges Mora Fellow. Lal’s work has been shown and curated work in Australia, New Zealand, India, United Kingdom, Barbados and France.
