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Paper Cuts - Art, Bureaucracy, and Silenced Histories in Colonial India

Exhibition: 25 April - 12 July 2024, 10am-8pm, Mondays to Fridays only, (Closed Monday 6 May and Monday 27 May)

Artists’ Talk: Ravista Mehra and Divya Sharma

Tuesday 28 May, 6-7:30pm

Keynes Library, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD

Book tickets to the Artists' Talk

Join the two exhibited artists of Paper Cuts, Ravista Mehra and Divya Sharma. They will discuss their work to date, artistic education, and the ideas that permeate their creative practices.

https://www.bbk.ac.uk/research/centres/peltz-gallery/current-exhibition

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Collect Open 2024

Collect Art Fair 2024 - Crafts Council

28th Feb to 3rd Mar 2024

https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect-fair/-talks

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Textile is Intelligent

Arts Council Funded

Artists talk with the Advertising and Creative Design students of the University of Greenwich

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Sound of Sun

Exibition of Prints in Japan

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Creative Croydon - Croydon BID

https://www.croydonist.co.uk/divya-sharma/

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Fragments Folds and Frays.

Featuring Emmanuel Boateng

Divya Sharma and

Patrick Tagoe - Turkson

6th Oct - 3nd Nov 2023

Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London UK

http://www.greenwichunigalleries.co.uk/fragments-folds-and-frays/

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New Art Exchange

May 2023 – Sept 2023

NAE – Nottingham, UK

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Fair Ferens Open Exhibition

21 July - 1 October 2023

Ferens Art Gallery, Hull UK

Part of the Judging Panel of the Ferens Open Exhibition 2023

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Cluster Contemporaray Art Fair

04-06 November 2022

Oxo Tower Wharf, London

Launch of their Cluster Contemporaray Art Fair under the theme ' Entanglement and More'

www.cluster-london.com

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'HOME GROUND'

Curated by Noor Ahmed, featuring new work by the Neulinge Collective will open to the public on 11th August 2022. Chudamani Clowes, Divya Sharma, Marium M Habib and Maryam Hasnain will investigate ideas of home and history, charting stories of bridges, migrations, rivers and seas. The Neulinge Collective came together in the UK to critique through art issues of global politics and their impact on women of colour. 'HOME GROUND' is the first in a series of exhibitions curated by Noor Ahmed beginning at ArtChowk gallery, Karachi, travelling to the other countries associated with the South Asian diaspora.

 

As featured in the press;

Youlin Magazine

Karachi City Pulse - International The News

RCA Newsletter

TNS - The News on Sunday

DAWN Newspaper

Nigaah TV

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Triennial in Poland

Divya’s piece ‘There is this stupendous thing of beauty called Compassion; and therefore the world exists’ is selected for the Triennial in Poland to be exhibited in the Textile Museum in Łódź Poland for 6 months.

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RCA artists selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022

https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/seven-rca-artists-selected-for-bloomberg-new-contemporaries-2022/

“I have the RCA to thank for the current direction in my practice. The Prick and Stitch Residency conceptualised by tutors Denise de Cordova and Kate Davis introduced me to working with threads and textiles and it was the turning point within my practice for which I am truly grateful.” Divya Sharma

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New Contemporaries

I’m pleased to announce that my work *There is this stupendous thing of beauty called Compassion; and therefore, the world exists* has been selected artists for New Contemporaries 2022, opening later this year!

 

The touring exhibition will be travelling to Hull @HumberStreetGallery @FerensArtGallery opening 23 September 2022, and @SouthLondonGallery opening 9 December 2022. Selected by James Richards, Veronica Ryan and Zadie Xa.

More information on the 48 artists announced for #BNC22 can be found on New Contemporaries website!

www.newcontemporaries.org.uk

www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/2022/artists/divya-sharma

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Spread Exibition

May 2022

Artists Talk at the Putney School of Art and Design for the Diploma passing out cohort.

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The Neulinge Collective - Figure It Out

Lewisham Arthouse, 140 Lewisham Way, London SE14 6PD, 16th to 27th September, 2021

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PROXY

RCA 2021 Painting and Sculpture Degree Show - Satellite Presentation

Cromwell Place, June 23, 2021 - June 27, 2021

Proxy | Online Exibition

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Member of the Prick and Stitch Alliance Prick and Stitch is a collaborative project devised by artists Denise de Cordova and Kate Davis. The project developed out of on-going conversations exploring notions of pricking and stitching as common processes present in their respective works.

https://standpointgallery.wixsite.com/prickandstitch/about

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Recipient of the RCA Gilbert Bayes Trust Sculpture Award 2021, designed for sculptors undertaking post-graduate work, to assist them in their studies.

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ARTiculate

 

New podcast weblog intended to give art students from all genres and ages a platform and a voice. To build a community of art students as a useful network for them to take inspiration from.

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Sunburnt Zine

 

Garam Girl Summer is the 2nd edition of Sunburnt featuring work from 30+ contributors. An 80+ paged zine filled with writing, photography, poetry, interviews and art all surrounding the theme of being unapologetically brown.

https://www.instagram.com/sunburnt_zine/?hl=en-gb

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The Architecture of Loss: RCA MRes x Architecture Foundation

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The Neulinge Collective

Newcomers at The Crypt Gallery

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