About Imogen Patel
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Education
2019 - 2021
University of Brighton
2018 - 2019
UAL: Camberwell College of Arts
Awards
2021
Bridge Awards
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Event: Eastbourne Open 2022
Dates: 13 Jan 2022 - 27 Feb 2022
The exhibition will feature a variety of media from painting and drawing to video and sculpture and will explore themes of materiality, cultural identity and the environment. Each of the 11 artists featured are united by a rigorous and critical approach to their respective practices and exemplify the array of talent present across Sussex.
Event: 'I Matter'
Dates: 16 Sep 2021 - 28 Nov 2021
“The ‘I Matter’ exhibition provides a platform to tell their stories of why they matter. I am keen to expand our own perspectives on art, using it to shed light on the broader range of narratives and forms of making. Art is a powerful tool that can be utilised to portray the issues that plague people across all races, backgrounds, religions, orientations and genders.”
- Olu Taiwo, Curator
Event: 'FUSE'
Dates: 13 Jul 2021 - 18 Jul 2021
FUSE is a visual art exhibition featuring the works of the University of Brighton’s Fine Art: Painting BA 2021 graduate class.
Following the cancellation of their physical degree show due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the artists have committed to conduct and curate a successful exhibition displaying their graduate works in a group exhibition independently to the university this summer.
FUSE celebrates this coming back together after a period of anxiety and isolation through the experience of viewing art in the flesh. Art has been mediated through a screen for so many this past year and FUSE aims to reconnect viewers to the physicality of art through the sensuous medium of painting.
Biography
My practice celebrates heritage and identity, drawing focus to the White British and Indian communities. I also explore feelings of biracial exclusivity within Britain. The concept of ‘otherness’ is an explored theme within my practice, particularly looking at it’s relationship with diaspora and race in a post-colonial Britain.
I fuse my heritages via the process of collage. This technique is present in every stage of creation, giving me the ability to alter the placement of both urban and rural landscapes. I use Sari fabrics to acknowledge the symbolic expressions embedded within Indian clothing, but this also serves to represent a part of my identity which I rejected whilst growing up. For the first time in my pratice, I have found a method to confidently combine both heritages in one space.
My technique allows me to collaborate Hindi iconographies with locations that resemble importance to my identity as a bi-racial woman. My work is inspired by the landscapes of Hertfordshire, Wales and Gujarat. I aim to celebrate the beauty of these environments whilst evoking feelings of isolation, a sensation that mirrors my early experiences of segregation.
Within the expanses that I construct, I manipulate the representation of my identity and therefore gain agency and control over how others perceive me.
