ABOUT

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Srabani Ghosh (b.1973) is a London-based Bengali-Indian storyteller, born in Doncaster and brought up in India, fusing sculpture with collage. An alumnus of Central Saint Martins, her work has gained international recognition, with exhibitions and private collections spanning Europe, Asia, and the USA. In 2022 she was honoured as a Homo Faber Master Artisan by the Michelangelo Foundation, and in 2023, received the Royal Society of Sculptors Gilber Bayes Award. Her work has been shown at the British Ceramics Biennial, Royal Academy nd Christie's. She completed her Ceramics & Glass MA from the Royal College of Art in 2026

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STATEMENT

I have roots that snake across continents and cultures. Drawing on lived environments, I excavate unfolding narratives through sculpture, drawing, collage, installation and poetry. Despite the changing of the times we live in, at its heart my work examines if the phenomenon of being human has really changed over the millennia of our collective existence.

 

Rather than dwell on cultural divergences, I am interested in the universality of being human shared across Eastern and Western spheres of influence, dealing with ideas of identity, dialogue, digital isolation, anxiety, belonging and longing, politics of maps and language.

 

I am drawn to ubiquity in my material choices of clay, wood, paper, ink, print and textile. Through meticulous layering, melding materials are imbued with agency to transmorph into story-carriers, deeply steeped in ancestral heritage and the slow language of craft. The influence of my ancestral homeland, Bengal’s artisanal traditions, colour the intricate patterns and fluid forms, through which I merge age-old techniques with contemporary sensibilities, creating richly detailed surfaces.

 

Splicer of time, un-abider of cultural bounds I swim unrestrained starting with a seed of an idea which moults and morphs as I gather the silken threads to weave richly embellished stories of our times.