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 may function
and manifest within an artists practice.

I explore points of departure, sublte objects, essences,  ascension, and the processes of seeking
on a spiritual path encapsulated within the world. This then involves navigating 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,
movement, and attention, to render markers on this path. In all my works I attempt to encode residues of gesture, and fruitful seeds of flowering.

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.

2024    One Nation Under a Groove. Bomb Factory, Marleybone. London (Group Show)
            Tribute to our Future Silicone Overlords. Uncovered Collective. Safe House. London (Group Show)
            2024 Space Oddities. Phantasmal Gallery. (Online Group Show)
            We Are Hyde Park. Left Bank. Leeds (Group Show)
            Top 25 : Exceptional Leader in Animation. 3rd Gaming and Animation Confex, Amsterdam, Holland (Award)
            Secret Salon Projekt. Safe House 2, London.(Group Show)
            Hide Me, Steal Me, Be Nice to Me, Art Centre Caravel / ARTE.M Madeira, Portugal (Group show)
            Metamorphosis, Cista Arts, London (Online Group Show)
            Chewin' The Fat Volume Two, Chewboy Productions, London (Publication)

2023    Oversounds, Roseberry Road Studios Bath (Group Show)
            Derelict, Safe House 1&2, London.(Group Show)
            Sculptura. Fox Yard Studio/ Gallery, Stowmarket (Group Show)
           101 contemporary Artists and more... Vol 4. Tblisi. Georgia (Publication)
            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

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