Previous Exhibitions
Feb 26 -COLLECT Contemporary Art Fair- Crafts Council- Somerset House, London
May 25 - Silver Art at Bonhams- London Craft Week.
Mar 25 -V&A Acquisition of ‘Golden Moment’ in the permanent Metalwork Collection,London.
My research draws inspiration from my British and Indian heritage, and I have a keen interest in historical and functional silverware. Tea drinking is a social custom that often, and across many cultures, carries themes of ritual. For many, the teapot sits at the forefront of the ‘ceremony’. For me, the teapot is a symbol of togetherness and friendship, of telling stories and sharing confidences. As a student I studied tea ware in the V&A collection and am interested in exploring global networks and the meeting of the East and West in the act of drinking tea.
Artefact ‘Golden Moment’ is part of a new series of research in which I have been exploring tea drinking and the meeting of cultures. This work is made from anodised aluminium, in two halves and has been hand raised. The aluminium has been anodised and the two sheets have been chemically bonded together using space grade materials.
Feb 25 -COLLECT Contemporary Art Fair- Crafts Council- Somerset House, London
Mar 24 -Hallaton Helmet Recreations on Permanent Display at Harborough Museum & Hallaton Museum in Leicestershire. Examine the potential of using 3D Printing & Electroforming (Metalization)- Stretching the possibilities of Digital & Analogue craft making to recreate and interpret archaeological finds.
Sept 23 -Contemporary International Metal Arts Triennial, Shanghai Powerlong Museum
Sept 21 -‘Celebrating Silver’ 25 years of CBS Symposium & Exhibition- at De Montfort University Gallery, Leicester
Mar 21 -‘Unzipped: Tailoring Silver’ Munich Jewellery Week- Solo Exhibition
Sept 20 -Beijing Design Week: Metal Narrative Exhibition – Dialogues of Design in Silver
Jun 20 -‘Open Up’ Hammer Club Exhibition at The Silver Museum, Schoonhoven,Netherlands
Nov19 -'Living Silver' Exhibition at Augustus Brandt, Newlands House, Petworth, West Sussex
Oct 19 - Research artefacts are featured in ‘Making form’ an eBook publication celebrating Contemporary British fine metalwork. (By Kenneth Quickenden BCU)
Oct 19 -Exhibition & Symposium Title: Making Connections ‘Notions of Beauty’ I was honoured to be invited to take make a significant contribution to the International Symposium and Exhibition funded by the New Dali Intangible Cultural Heritage Station in Lijiang, Yunnan, China. My Artefacts were part of this exhibition for the inaugural opening of the BR Gallery.
2019 -European Silversmithing Symposium Hammer Club - V&A Design Museum in Dundee, Dock Street Studios, Dundee. The Goldsmiths' Centre, London www.goldsmiths-centre.org/whats-on
Elements: A Festival of Jewellery, Silver & Gold, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh www.elementsfestival.co.uk/elements-festival-makers
2018 -NEXUS: Meetings at the Edge- Kirkcaldy Galleries, Scotland. Curated By Elizabeth Goring. This exhibition looks at some of the ways in which 21st-century artists and makers are changing preconceptions about their art forms. Touring Exhibition to Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
2018 -Contemporary Applied Arts presents Colour Theory, a kaleidoscopic selection of exquisite decorative and functional hand-crafted objects.
2016/18 -Made in the Middle-National Touring Exhibition- 2016-2018 This exhibition launched at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry on 3rd December 2016 and is touring for approximately eighteen months. The first East Midlands venue in the tour is The National Centre for Craft & Design in May 2017- Brewhouse Arts Centre 30th September 2017 - 25th November 2017-ending its tour at Rugby Museum & Art Gallery March 2018.Invited Artists- Contemporary craft from across the Midlands- Funding- The exhibition is supported by Arts Council England.
2017 - Bonham’s, Knightsbridge, London (Silver Speaks Exhibition Collection)
2016/17- A Winter’s Tale- Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2016/17- Silver Speaks Idea to Object Exhibition & Symposium- V&A Museum, London Silver Speaks: traces how a work in silver is brought into being from the inspiration, through sketches, models, material experimentation and construction processes, to the final piece. The selected designs in this free display at the V&A encompass a variety of beautiful and intriguing objects – both sculptural and functional – created using a range of different processes, from the traditional to the most cutting edge. I was one of 18 of Britain’s leading silversmiths have been selected by Corinne Julius who curated the exhibition.
2015 -Goldsmiths’ Company Festive Silver Exhibition, National Museum of Scotland,Edinburgh
2014 -Contemporary Silver Spoon Exhibition- Belton House, Grantham
2014 -Contemporary Silver Exhibition- Koldinghus Museum, Denmark
2014 -Christie's Auction House, London- Contemporary British Silversmiths Association Members Exhibition
2014 -Regenerated Exhibition-Museum of the Jewellery Quarter-Interventions within historic context/collections
2013 -Channel 4 ‘Four Rooms’- Art Dealer Program
2013 -Chelsea Art Fair Exhibition- Represented by John Higgins Silver
2012 -Goldsmiths’ Fair Exhibition- (30 year Anniversary), Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
2012 -Art in Action- Oxfordshire (CBS members exhibition)
2012 -V&A Museum Exhibition-Best of British Design
2012 -From the Table to the Wall Exhibition, Flow Gallery, London
2011 -Goldsmiths’ Fair Exhibition, Goldsmiths’Hall, London
2011 -Reverberation- Art of Bashing Metal- Bilston Craft Gallery.
2011 -Silverstruck Exhibition, National Museum Wales Cardiff.
2011 -Galvanise Interchanges Exhibition, Butchers Works, Sheffield.
2011 -Silverstruck Exhibition, Ruthin Craft Centre.
2011 -Romance of British Craft, CAA London.
2011 -SIDE X SIDE EDGE X EDGE-CBS Exhibition, Devon Guild.
2010 -Goldsmiths’ Fair Exhibition, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London
2010 -Design Festival Showcase, V&A Museum, London
2010 -A Living Space Exhibition, Contemporary Applied Arts, London.
2010 -RBSA Gallery Exhibition - 10year Anniversary, Birmingham.
2010 -Focus Exhibition, Contemporary Applied Arts London.
2009 -Goldsmiths’ Fair Exhibition- Goldsmiths’ Hal, London.
2009 -SIDE X SIDE EDGE X EDGE- Hame Castle, Hammenlinna, Finland.
2009 -British Silver Week, S.J Phillips, New Bond Street, London.
2009 -Silver with a Pinch of Salt, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London.
2009 -Bank Street Arts, Sheffield- Exhibition-In their own words.
2008 -Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow - Winter collection.
2008 -Goldsmiths’ Fair Exhibition - Goldsmith’s Hall, London.
2007 -Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow - Winter collection.
2007 -Arts Ornata Europeana - Thread of Silk Exhibition Manchester Royal Exchange.
2007 -Silver Exhibition- 25th Anniversary Craft Design Centre, Manchester.
2007 -Origin 07 – Crafts Council, Somerset House, London.
2007 -Pewter Live 07 Pewter’s Hall, Iron Mongers Hall, London.
2007 -Contemporary Craft s for Living - Bilston Craft Gallery.
2006 -Origin 06 – Crafts Council, Somerset House, London.
2006 -Patterns of Identity- Bilston Craft Gallery.
2004 -Technique – Royal College of Art, London.
2004 -The Metal Gallery – Mayfair, London.
2003 -Talente Exhibition –Munich.
2002 - Now and Then Silver Exhibition– V&A Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
2002/03 -Collide Exhibition- Joint Artist Commission with Birmingham City Council & Craftspace
2001 -Beyond Materials, Contemporary Silver Exhibition- Bangkok, Thailand.
2001/03-Chandrika Silver Commission- Preston, Bradford, Oldham, Blackpool, Rotherham.
2001/02 -13th Silver Triennial-Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany.
2000 -Silk Road Exhibition, Royal National Theatre, London.
2000 -Passing Out- Goldsmiths Hall, London.
2000 -New Designers Exhibition, London
98/00 -12th Silver Triennial-Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, Germany
1998 -Millennium Canteen- Mappin & Webb, London
1998 -New Designers Exhibition, London