About
Archana’s practice comes from her British and Indian heritage, and she specialises in stitch and fine art textiles. Archana received her MA in Sustainable Textile Design from Chelsea College of Arts and Design in 2014 and Masters in Apparel and Textile design from India National Institute of Design in 2003.
Her studio practice involves collecting and working with found memory artefacts such as old photographs, postcards, letters, diaries and maps. Often these artefacts are old maps that bring forth the evolving nature of boundaries – both physical as well as psychological. Through these, Archana has been exploring the “transient nature of identity” – now slowly shifting her explorations to being in awareness of ‘Beauty in transience’.
Archana collects artefacts, which become a starting point and the most important material which eventually takes the shape of the thread that she uses. She prints these artefacts on a fabric and cuts very fine laces out of these to make the threads to recreate a visual art piece by very slow, repetitive, almost meditative hand-sewing.
