My Art Practice
I am interested in bodies, skin, the sensual and pleasure. I am also interested in the ways that pleasure can become political, especially when in conflict with ideas about morality and censorship.
Sometimes my work is also about my experiences of growing up as a British-Punjabi. In this context, I make the work to explore the childhood residues that continue to resonate in my adult life.
My practice is interdisciplinary.
When I am painting, I am often thinking about intimacy.
When I am writing I am usually thinking about thinking.
When I work digitally, I am usually thinking about breaking things.
And when I am working with music, I am thinking about being free.
Why Artist+?
I am also a medical doctor with a speciality in the treatment of mental illness. I am experienced coach, mentor and educator and in the past set up a not-for profit company supporting LGBTQIA+ people with South Asian heritage.
My practice is heavily informed by psychotherapy, psychology, intersectionality and queer theory.