Navi Kaur relationship with garden, family and culture

2012- 2015 studied at BCU

- Artist educator

- documented lived experience of grandmother

- how we are structured at home and how that impacts life

- Budimom (2015)

- applied for galleries - volunteered for year - never got a position.

- Volunteered for a school - got a TA position - life changing - understood faith more - now impacts work

- worked on projects within the community - The Dame (2016)

- its good to step away from the bubble of the art education/higher education.

- 2 year break, focused on teaching at the school.

- did an Ma in art and education practices - networking! build a social media platform!

- GO TO EVENTS!

- things that remind me of home (2017) - first piece of work on the Ma - GAP gallery exhibition - celebrating south asian homes - made into book

- superimpose (2017)

- chuni ( 2017)

- Finding space in faith (2018) - film piece (on YouTube) - Trip to India with grandparents - exploration of her faith

- faith is storytelling, faith is beauty, faith is family, faith is learning, faith is joyous, faith is pure, faith is accepting.

- This body of work lead to residencies

- did PGCE in secondary education - HARD - £9000 bursary for arts and education pgce courses available!

- working in schools changed her practice

- teacher of art in secondary school job from pgce

- nourishing provision from school

- changing perceptions of art in school - broadening horizons

- maintaining art practise whilst doing pgce Is hard as in time to do things

- she did group shows - shows don't have to correlate

- recreation of the 'American Gothic' (2019)

- grow goes straight into food - sustainabilities - sharing food - shared food in culture

- 30 work everyday challenge

- Dream of green beans (2019)

- 8/11/19 - Artefact project

- 21/03/19 - Ort Gallery, basil heath, Birmingham

- be cautious of organisations you work with

- Navi is willing to meetup

- New Art West Midlands is a good company to apply for things with.

plan video call with Navi !