Shivanjani Lal, 4 Lines Across a Horizon - Ba (2021), Cotton rag print, colour photograph (printed Marine Lines Bombay), red kite thread (sourced Byculla, Bombay) [Detail]
Photo by Jacquie Manning, courtesy Parramatta Artists’ Studios
Shivanjani Lal is a twice-removed Fijian-Indian-Australian artist and curator. She has recently completed her Masters in Artists Film and Moving Image at Goldsmiths. Lal has been part of many international solo and group exhibitions, with some of her most recent shows at Peacock Gallery in Auburn and at the Centre of Contemporary Photography in Victoria, Australia. Lal has also been awarded numerous residencies, such as the Parramatta Artist Studios (2020) and the HH Art Residency in India (2018). She was a finalist in Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art (2020) and the winner of the Redcliffe Art Award at Redcliffe Art Gallery (2020).
As a member of the indentured labourer diaspora from the Indian and Pacific oceans, Lal employs family images as well as pictures and videos from her travels. Through her works she reconstructs temporary landscapes which she sees as shifting sites for diasporic healing. Central to her artistic practice is the development of art and how it represents culture as it transitions between contexts.
Selected Works
Shivanjani Lal
I am remembering, 2021
Brown paper (sourced Marine Lines, Bombay), orange kite thread (sourced Byculla, Bombay), haldi (turmeric) and chuna powder (sourced Deptford, London), 45 x 30 cm
Shivanjani Lal
Yaad Karo [1879-1920] Empire Edition, 2021
Brown paper (sourced Marine Lines, Bombay), red kite thread (sourced Byculla, Bombay)
Dimensions variable
Shivanjani Lal
4 Lines Across a Horizon - Ba, 2021
Cotton rag print, colour photograph (printed Marine Lines Bombay), red kite thread (sourced Byculla, Bombay), 33 x 48 cm
Shivanjani Lal
Arrivals, 2021
Cotton rag print, black and white photograph (printed Marine Lines Bombay) augmented with haldi (turmeric) (sourced Auburn, Austria) and chalk stones (sourced Thames River, Greenwich), 13.5 x 20 cm
Shivanjani Lal
Ganna ki khet ek, do, teen, char, panch, 2021
Plaster and jesmonite, dimensions variable
Shivanjani Lal
Ganna ki khet (Small), 2021
Plaster and haldi (turmeric) (sourced Deptford, London), dimensions variable
Shivanjani Lal
Paal, 2021
Sugar sacks (sourced Sigatoka Town, Fiji), green kite thread (sourced Byculla, Bombay)
98 x 108 cm
Exhibition History Highlights
2022 - ‘Shinvanjani Lal: Pani begets Pani’, Murray Art Museum, Albury, Australia
2021 - ‘Looking North, Looking West, Looking South, Looking East’, with Amol K Patil and Niccolo Moscatelli, RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
- ‘THREADS OF TIME’, No 20 Arts, London, UK
- ‘Fertile Ground’, Centre of Contemporary Photography, Victoria, Australia
- ‘AustrALIEN’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia
- ‘Disobedient Daughters’, Coulihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
- ‘Making Ground’, Constance ARI for MONA FOMA, Tasmania, Australia
2020 - ‘Terra Infirma’, Blacktown Arts Centre, New South Wales, Australia
- ‘Echoes over Oceans’, Firstdraft, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- ‘Observational Histories’, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia
- ‘Bhulona Nahi [don’t forget/forget me not]’, Peacock Gallery, Auburn, Australia
2019 - ‘Like This Incense Your Spirit Must Burn’, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, New South Wales
- ‘Yaad Karo [1879-2019]’, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
Press Releases
THREADS OF TIME - Yang-En Hume, Seungwon Jung, Shivanjani Lal, Sunghoon Yang
10 December 2021 - 26 February 2022
Publications
THREADS OF TIME
Exhibition catalogue
Fully illustrated in colour,
5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm)
Click here to download a pdf version of the catalogue, or please contact the gallery at info@no20arts.com to enquire about a paper copy.
Shivanjani Lal, Arrivals (2021), Cotton rag print, black and white photograph (printed Marine Lines Bombay) augmented with haldi (turmeric) (sourced Auburn, Austria) and chalk stones (sourced Thames River, Greenwich) [Detail]