RAKSHA PATEL
b. 1972 Leicester, UK
Education
1996 – 1998 MFA Fine Art Painting, Slade School of Fine Art
1994 – 1996 PG Dip Communication Design, Central Saint Martins College of Arts
1991 – 1994 BA Hons Illustration, Norwich School of Art
1990 – 1991 Foundation Course in Art and Design, Leicester Polytechnic
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Goddesses of Kings Cross, Museum Window Gallery, CSM UAL
2019 Stellatus Re-Visited, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2018 Uproot, The South London Botanical Institute, London
2013 Forget-Me-Knot, Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London
2004 Stellatus, Projection Space, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2000 Corona, Gallery II, University of Bradford, Bradford
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 A Tall Order! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s, Touchstones Rochdale
2023 Preconsious Landscapes, Exposed Art Projects, London
2022 Le Document, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2022 That Island Feeling, Terrace Gallery, William IV, London.
2021 Fantasy of Having a Trailer Wagon All to Myself, Gallery 46, London
2021 Asia Triennial, Manchester Metropolitan University.
2020 Home and Unhome, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2020 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2020 In Between, TOMA, Southend on Sea
2020 John Lennon’s Not Dead. The Stash Gallery, London
2019 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2018 Florilegium, The Royal College of Physicians, London
2018 Inside Job, Tate Modern (Tate Exchange) London
2018 The Harry Pye Awards, A Side, B Side Gallery, London
2018 The Extricate Print Fair, Gallery 64, Whitstable
2017 CurAte, The Tram Depot, London
2017 The Need to Doodle, Gallery 5, London
2017 Roots and Wings, House of Blah, Blah, Middlesbrough
2017 Painting Now, Studio One Gallery, London
2017 Fugitive Desires, 198 Gallery, London
2016 Lives, Loves and Loss, Traces at National Trust, Fenton House, London
2015 Summer Salon, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2015 Roadside Museum at Basement Arts Projects, Leeds
2014 The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery, London
2014 The Deluge, Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, Nuneaton
2014 A Letter in Mind, The National Brain Appeal, London
2014 Roadside Museum, Venn Arts, Blackpool
2014 Fugue, Barbican Arts Group, London
2013 Tradition and the Passing Down of Culture, Pump House Gallery, London
2013 We Were Trying to Make Sense, One Shantiroad, Bangalore
2013 Collision, Nancy Victor Gallery, London
2012 No Now! Space Station 65, London
2011 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space London and touring.
2010 Paint, Beldham Gallery, Brunel University, London
2009 Postcards from Dystopia, Nolias Gallery. London
2009 Other Asias – A Cup of Tea Solves Everything, Departure. London
2008 The Mausoleum of Lost Objects, inIVA – Rivington Space, London
2007 The Redemptive Beauty of Life After Death, The Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham
2006 Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery. London
2006 Saathipadi, St Albans Church, Fulham, London
2005 Reception 3, Cremer Street ACAVA Studios. London
2005 Creative Connections, The Whitechapel Art Gallery. London
2005 Closing the door? The Jewish Museum. London
2005 The Video Lounge, South London Gallery, London
2004 Island film festival, Prenelle Gallery, London
2003 Nth Art exhibit, OLS & CO, London
2001 Art-Tube-01, Platform for Art, The London Underground, London
2001 Self Assembly, Rugby Museum & Art Gallery + touring, Rugby
2000 Labour Intensive, The City Gallery, Leicester.
2000 Slow Spin, The Century Gallery, London
1999 Accelerated Culture Jet Lag, La Gare, London
1997 Imaginary Boundaries, The Bull Arts Centre. London
1996 Half Empty, Half Full, 198 Gallery, London
1995 Fair and Lovely, Alternative Arts, London
1995 Pleasures Unbound, Coventry Gallery, London
Publications
2021 Review on Revisiting the Decameron, Journal of Contemporary Painting
2020 Antennae, Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, (Summer) Chicago
2019 A-N (Essay for Artist Newsletter Research Publication) Social Art Summit
2019 Whetherscapes, Wimbledon MA Drawing Course (text for the catalogue), UAL
2018 The College Herbal, published by The Royal College of Physicians
2013 Seeing Through, published by Tate
2014 SpaceMakers, published by Kettles Yard & University of Cambridge Museums
2011 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Visual Arts, page 58
2010 The Redemptive Beauty of Life After Death, exh cat. pages 48-53
2010 Anish Kapoor Studio – Children’s Art-Pack for his exhibition in Delhi
2008 Guangzhou Triennial, Pool of Possibilities (online project)
2000 Art Tube 01, Platform for Art – London Underground. exh cat.
1998 The Slade Journal, UCL, Vol.2, pages 40-41
1996 Ambit, issue 145, page 67
1996 Half Empty, Half Full, 198 Gallery, London (text written by Eddie Chambers).
Awards
2022 London Unseen Grant – Lord Mayors Office
2022 Museum and Development London’s Diversity Matters Grant
2021 Arts Council. Developing Your Creative Practice Award.
1998 ACAVA – First Base Studio Award
2000 Commission for Public Art, Leicester City Council
2003 The Apthorp Young Artist Award
Collections
Gissings Ltd
Brent Council
Central Saint Martin’s College of Art – Museum and Study Collection
Private Collections
Employment
2022 to present – Interim Course Leader, Fine Art: BA Painting, Camberwell College of Arts UAL.
2022 Senior Lecturer, Fine Art: BA Painting, Camberwell College of Arts UAL.
2022 Presenter, Imperial Encounters conference, Art History, University of Birmingham
2022 Speaker, Identifying the Disoeuvre: Association for Art History, Annual Conference
2022 Speaker, ExEd 2022 UAL Conference, University of the Arts.
2021 – 2022 Senior Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts UAL.
2021 Speaker, Creative Conversations with women of the Global Majority, Ikon Gallery
2021 Speaker, Conversations on Monica Sjoo, Destroy She Said, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2021 Speaker, Conversation with Lucrezia Walker, Stories in Art, National Gallery.
2019 – 2021 Associate Lecturer, BA Painting at Camberwell College of Art, UAL, London
2018 Visiting Practitioner, MA Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art, UAL, London
2019 Guest Speaker, Social Art Summit, Site Gallery, Sheffield
2018 Where is Home, speaker on a panel discussion at The Rabbits Row Institute, London
2017 Visiting Lecturer, University of Bedfordshire, BA Visual Arts Practice, Luton
2012 On Art, Resilience and Young People. Speaker at this Tate Britain conference.
2009 The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University – Artist’s presentation.
2007 The National Maritime Museum, panel discussion for the Untold India event
2006 AAVAA (Diversity Arts Forum) panel discussion at the Hayward Gallery
2004 Resonance FM, Artist’s talk, November
2000 Visiting Lecturer, Kent Institute of Art & Design, p/t BA honours Fine Art, Canterbury
2001 Visiting Lecturer, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, BA honours Fine Art, Newcastle
2000 Visiting Lecturer Norwich School of Art & Design, Artists Lecture – BA honours, Illustration
1998 Mentor Slade School of Fine Art, BA honours Fine Art (MFA mentoring programme).
British Art Network – British Asian Visual Art Post Cool Britannia (2021to present).
Raksha Patel is co-leading a new research group with Professor Daniel Sturgis on British Asian Visual Art post mid 90’s for British Art Network – partnered with the Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre. The research investigates the comparative invisibility of British South-Asian artists represented in national collections. The impetus to start this group came out of decolonising discussions between tutors and students at Camberwell College of Arts.
Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lecturer (2003 to present).
Raksha currently gives talks and lectures for Corporate Events and the Private Tours Department – clients include the corporate sponsors, gallery and museum executives, diplomats and ambassadors, overseas university students, and UK based schools and colleges. The tours are based on the temporary exhibitions and collection displays.