The show at the Royal Geographical Soety in London is over. Itâ??s time to reflect on the experience. What has emerged? While working on the project I tried to keep three...
At one end of the Pavilion exhibition space of the Royal Geographical Society, I created a mini-museum based on experiences of looking into the South Asian Textile Collection at...
The themes of this exhibition concern the mobility of ornament between Britain and South Asia in both colonial and post colonial times in Britain. To convey some of this, the...
Moving Patterns is my drawing installation, at the Royal Geographical Society showing from May 7th-May 21st . It bears witness to the way in which pattern and ornament are laden...
I was looking for communicable structures through which to convey the shifting plenitude of the material and decided to explore the notions of â??shopâ?? and â??museumâ??,...
I was back in Wimbledon College of Art, in The Drawing Centre Project Space, for a second phase of the residency. The residency was immensely helpful, for it kept posing the...
My residency in the Wimbledon College of Art Drawing Centre Project Space unfolded in three separate...
I'd taken so many photos. Now I had boxes of them, pictures taken in and around Green Street, E.13, images of the shops and houses; and many also from the South Asian Textile...
My second site for this practice-based research is the South Asian Collection at the V&A, particularly the textiles collection. Buildings tell their own stories just as...
Since the beginning of last year I've been walking frequently along Green Street in East London and around the streets which form its hinterland, looking at the shop displays and...
I must come soon to the daunting question of framing some kind of response as an artist to the quantity of images I have gathered from my two research sites, Green Street, Newham,...
I went to India in order to try and understand a little, if I could, something of the cultures which produce the ornament on the South Asian clothing I see in London, and which...
In my last post I put up some images of postcards I made while travelling in India and sent back to the V&A. Here are some more, and some thoughts about that...
In India I travelled from one city to another, looking at textile and jewellery workshops. As I did so I thought of the late 19th century voyager to India, Caspar Purdon Clarke,...
I had planned visits to workshops and factories in...
A photograph of a sari for Green Street, London E 17, by Helen Scalway...
Cities, streets, houses â?? how do we make them home?Often by ornamenting them. If we look closely we may find these places are layered with meaning and memory because of their...