Born in Leeds in 1980, I am a Punjabi artist specialising in mixed-media textiles and surface design. My practice centres on embellishment and stitch as tools to explore the construction of identity, memory, and belonging. I currently hold a studio at Lewisham Art House, where I continue to develop work that blends craft, research, and personal narrative.

At the heart of my practice is a deep fascination with materials, particularly found or discarded textiles. These fragments carry traces of unknown histories: enigmatic, silent stories that hint at lives once lived. I view my process as a quiet act of reclamation, where I stitch these materials into new surfaces, securing them and giving them space to exist anew. This method of reassembly speaks to broader themes of migration, displacement, and cultural inheritance, echoing my own experience of growing up within a British-Asian household.

Introduced to embroidery at a young age by my grandmother, textiles have always been more than just material to me; they are a way of connecting across generations, cultures, and geographies. My work celebrates hybridity and community, drawing on memories of India as well as the rich multiculturalism of South London, where I live and work today.

Increasingly, the therapeutic and meditative aspects of textile-making have become central to my approach. I’m interested in the tactile repetition of the process and how it can support emotional healing and enhance focus and dexterity. Through this lens, textiles become a way of processing trauma and engaging with care. In recent projects, I’ve begun to incorporate psychological and medical source imagery to deepen my investigation into identity and trauma. My Brain Scans and Rorschach series explore the intersections between perception, diagnosis, and personal narrative. These works reflect on how internal states can be made visible - how the clinical and emotional collide and how textiles, often considered ‘soft’ or domestic, can become powerful conduits for vulnerability and strength.

Across all aspects of my practice, I aim to create work that bridges the personal and the universal, anchored in materiality, yet open to broader social and emotional conversations.