Artist Statement
I am a London based Artist working under the titles of Tajinder Dhami & Stanthers Ink. My work spans the forms of Animation, Micro-stages, Installation, Objects, and Drawings. My practice engages with exotic forms of transcendentalism and spirituality, exploring how these function and manifest through an artists practice.
I explore points of departure, sublte objects, essences, processes of meditation, ascension, seeking, and the spiritual path encapsulated within the world. Within this creative endeavour I also navigate the earthly polarities to spiritual being, visible within divisionalism, and historical hegemonies. Working predominately with references to Animation techniques and processes, I play with its qualities of time, space, and movement, to render markers on this path. In all my works I attempt to encode residues of gesture, and fruitful seeds of flowering.
This fascination with the spiritual, arrives from my Bhartain Heritage and a ancestor, who through meditation navigated beyond the psychological limits of the sensory world. His life, insight, methods, and teachings are a deep source of inspiration for me, In some way I attempt to embed/ locate them within the journey of my practice. To know oneself and beyond oneself is the greatest thing one will ever do. Oneness.
Paperwork.
Mphil Queen Mary, University of London. London
Mphil (RCA) Royal College of Art. London
M.A (Distinction) National Center for Computer Animation. Bournemouth
B.A Fine Art. Leeds Metropoloitan University. Leeds
Selected Recent Activities.
2023 ClimateProv. Be Fantastic Festival. Banglore International Centre.India (Performance)
ClimateProv. La La Land Festival. Ruigoord, Amsterdam. Holland (Performance)
Be Fantastic. Future Sikhi - Bibi Nirmal Kaur. Ranga Shankara. India (Interactive conversational AI )
ArtsFest-Black Arts Gathering. Wolverhampton University. Wolverhampton (Group Show)
Sweet Tooth. Seagar Gallery. London (Group Show - Forthcoming)
2022 BeFantastic Within. BeFantastic & Future Everything. Bangalore, India. (AI & Performing Arts Fellowship)
Graphics. LCB Depot. Leicester. (Screening)
Quiet Little Paki. Various. London (Wall Work)
2019 University of London (Graphics/ Motion Graphics)
2018 Moov TV. London (Motion Graphics)
Ambient Sounds. London (Experimental Ambient Set)
2017 SAGE Publications GDP. USA (Freelance Motion Graphics)
Human Hotel. Copenhangen (Screening)
Fireside. Abottshill. London (Experimental Ambient Set)
2016 Something's Not Quiet Right With Grandma. NHS Trust & Artlift (Animation & Direction)
SAGE Video Platform. SAGE Publications (Motion Graphics)
Wisdom. Wisdom House. London. (Animation & Motion Graphics)
Salon des Refuses. OTTAWA International Animation Festival. Canada
2015 Natty and the Rebel ship. I’m Alive. Vibes & Pressure Records (Animation & Mograph)
Punch. Espacio Gallery. London (group show)
Videotheque. Agora, Animasyros. Greece. (database)
Dark Night. Animaee Caribe Animation Festival. Trindad & Tabago (screening)
2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014. World Museum, Liverpool ; ICA, London & The Exchange,
Penzance (group show)
DOTMOV 2014 Festival . (Shift Magazine). Japan. & Touring Various Countries . (group screening)
SE23dotMov. Canvas & Cream. London & The Montage. London (group show)
PuntoYraya Festival . Reykjavík. Iceland (Screening)
House of Voodoo. Folkestone Quarterhouse. Folkestone. (Screening)
2010 Spark Festival of Electronic Music & Arts, Minneapolis. USA (group show)
Multichannel: Variable Economies. Artsway. Sway (Group Show)
Something I Said, Spoken Word Festival. Southbank Centre. London (Animation Graphics)
MacLab. MAC . Birmingham (Residency)
J Street. The Bristol Museum. (Group show)
On Cirencester. (Animation Workshops)
The Bhangra Project. Yate. (Project Manager/ Curation)
2009 Oscillations. Station Gallery. Bristol (Solo Show)
DJ Tubbs featuring Joe Duckie. New Way of Life. Exceptional Records. (Director)
Proud to be Different. Art Shape/ GARAS. Gloucester (Residency)
State of Art . Glastonbury Festival (Co-Curator & Group show)
Warning. Outpost. Norwich (Audio Paper. artist radio/ trade union)
PTBD. St Michael's tower. Gloucester (Group Show)
Redfest. Bristol. (Experimental Live Web Curation)
2008 Soho Road to the Punjab. Punch Records/ AAA. Bristol (Curator / Champion )
Reach. Bristol (AAA Animation Workshops)
Zoon Van Snook. Bibliophone. Cookshop Records. (Director)
String Theory. Spike Island Test Space. Bristol. (Solo Show)
Animated Exeter . Phoenix . Exeter ( screening )
Spike Open. Spike Island. Bristol (Studio Holders show)
Emerge and See. Berlin (paper presentation)
Atom. Custard Factory. Birmingham ( live performance )
Contact. Spike island associates space. bristol ( live performance )
2007 Step Online. Watershed/Asian Arts Agency. Bristol (Online group show)
Jamaica Street Studio Open. Bristol (Group Show)
Independence Stories. British Empire & Commonwealth Museum Bristol. (Digital History Film workshops)
Venn festival. Arnolfini . Bristol (Screening)
Exposures. Manchester (Screening)
Lives & Works | London
Likes | Sun Ra & Niners
" You dont have to be an LCD if you don't want to be one ! " (Dr S. Bell 1999.)
I am a London based Artist working under the titles of Tajinder Dhami & Stanthers Ink. My work spans the forms of Animation, Micro-stages, Installation, Objects, and Drawings. My practice engages with exotic forms of transcendentalism and spirituality, exploring how these function and manifest through an artists practice.
I explore points of departure, sublte objects, essences, processes of meditation, ascension, seeking, and the spiritual path encapsulated within the world. Within this creative endeavour I also navigate the earthly polarities to spiritual being, visible within divisionalism, and historical hegemonies. Working predominately with references to Animation techniques and processes, I play with its qualities of time, space, and movement, to render markers on this path. In all my works I attempt to encode residues of gesture, and fruitful seeds of flowering.
This fascination with the spiritual, arrives from my Bhartain Heritage and a ancestor, who through meditation navigated beyond the psychological limits of the sensory world. His life, insight, methods, and teachings are a deep source of inspiration for me, In some way I attempt to embed/ locate them within the journey of my practice. To know oneself and beyond oneself is the greatest thing one will ever do. Oneness.
Paperwork.
Mphil Queen Mary, University of London. London
Mphil (RCA) Royal College of Art. London
M.A (Distinction) National Center for Computer Animation. Bournemouth
B.A Fine Art. Leeds Metropoloitan University. Leeds
Selected Recent Activities.
2023 ClimateProv. Be Fantastic Festival. Banglore International Centre.India (Performance)
ClimateProv. La La Land Festival. Ruigoord, Amsterdam. Holland (Performance)
Be Fantastic. Future Sikhi - Bibi Nirmal Kaur. Ranga Shankara. India (Interactive conversational AI )
ArtsFest-Black Arts Gathering. Wolverhampton University. Wolverhampton (Group Show)
Sweet Tooth. Seagar Gallery. London (Group Show - Forthcoming)
2022 BeFantastic Within. BeFantastic & Future Everything. Bangalore, India. (AI & Performing Arts Fellowship)
Graphics. LCB Depot. Leicester. (Screening)
Quiet Little Paki. Various. London (Wall Work)
2019 University of London (Graphics/ Motion Graphics)
2018 Moov TV. London (Motion Graphics)
Ambient Sounds. London (Experimental Ambient Set)
2017 SAGE Publications GDP. USA (Freelance Motion Graphics)
Human Hotel. Copenhangen (Screening)
Fireside. Abottshill. London (Experimental Ambient Set)
2016 Something's Not Quiet Right With Grandma. NHS Trust & Artlift (Animation & Direction)
SAGE Video Platform. SAGE Publications (Motion Graphics)
Wisdom. Wisdom House. London. (Animation & Motion Graphics)
Salon des Refuses. OTTAWA International Animation Festival. Canada
2015 Natty and the Rebel ship. I’m Alive. Vibes & Pressure Records (Animation & Mograph)
Punch. Espacio Gallery. London (group show)
Videotheque. Agora, Animasyros. Greece. (database)
Dark Night. Animaee Caribe Animation Festival. Trindad & Tabago (screening)
2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014. World Museum, Liverpool ; ICA, London & The Exchange,
Penzance (group show)
DOTMOV 2014 Festival . (Shift Magazine). Japan. & Touring Various Countries . (group screening)
SE23dotMov. Canvas & Cream. London & The Montage. London (group show)
PuntoYraya Festival . Reykjavík. Iceland (Screening)
House of Voodoo. Folkestone Quarterhouse. Folkestone. (Screening)
2010 Spark Festival of Electronic Music & Arts, Minneapolis. USA (group show)
Multichannel: Variable Economies. Artsway. Sway (Group Show)
Something I Said, Spoken Word Festival. Southbank Centre. London (Animation Graphics)
MacLab. MAC . Birmingham (Residency)
J Street. The Bristol Museum. (Group show)
On Cirencester. (Animation Workshops)
The Bhangra Project. Yate. (Project Manager/ Curation)
2009 Oscillations. Station Gallery. Bristol (Solo Show)
DJ Tubbs featuring Joe Duckie. New Way of Life. Exceptional Records. (Director)
Proud to be Different. Art Shape/ GARAS. Gloucester (Residency)
State of Art . Glastonbury Festival (Co-Curator & Group show)
Warning. Outpost. Norwich (Audio Paper. artist radio/ trade union)
PTBD. St Michael's tower. Gloucester (Group Show)
Redfest. Bristol. (Experimental Live Web Curation)
2008 Soho Road to the Punjab. Punch Records/ AAA. Bristol (Curator / Champion )
Reach. Bristol (AAA Animation Workshops)
Zoon Van Snook. Bibliophone. Cookshop Records. (Director)
String Theory. Spike Island Test Space. Bristol. (Solo Show)
Animated Exeter . Phoenix . Exeter ( screening )
Spike Open. Spike Island. Bristol (Studio Holders show)
Emerge and See. Berlin (paper presentation)
Atom. Custard Factory. Birmingham ( live performance )
Contact. Spike island associates space. bristol ( live performance )
2007 Step Online. Watershed/Asian Arts Agency. Bristol (Online group show)
Jamaica Street Studio Open. Bristol (Group Show)
Independence Stories. British Empire & Commonwealth Museum Bristol. (Digital History Film workshops)
Venn festival. Arnolfini . Bristol (Screening)
Exposures. Manchester (Screening)
Lives & Works | London
Likes | Sun Ra & Niners
" You dont have to be an LCD if you don't want to be one ! " (Dr S. Bell 1999.)
