Shrine Share

I was commissioned to be part of the Shrine Share project, curated by UK based artist, David Blandy, with Malaysian based artist Sharon Chin and writer Zedeck Siew looking at the notion of the shrine in the 21st century.

ShrineShare is a British Council-funded collection of drawn works by six UK and ten Malaysian artists to share their visions of sacred shrines—be they ancient, personal, or imagined.  From an arcade cabinet to a lonely rock cairn to a collection of talismanic artefacts from the artist’s studio. What do we hold sacred in times of crisis?

This resulted in two overlapping group exhibitions at Leicester Art Gallery in the UK and in RangKnit, Malaysia. The two exhibitions talk to each other about spaces of the domestic and the divine and where they intersect.  

On the floors are the rugs of Poojah Shah, crafted objects that draw on Southern Asian heritage to present pools of hospitality and warmth in the hard space of the gallery.

This project is supported through British Council’s Connections Through Culture grants programme. Creating new arts & cultural partnerships between East Asia & the UK.

To find out more about the project and see images from the exhibition please visit David Blandy’s website.