Nidhi Khurana virtual artist in residence at Bateman’s. 

 

Nidhi is an Indian artist and educator based in New Delhi. Her studio work takes the form of drawings, textiles, carpets, prints, artist-books, and sculptures to reflect upon the role of the human within nature. In her recent works she explores her relationship with the natural world by mapping her experiences as cyclical graphs of time, inspired by a diversity in cognitive approaches such as the Australian aboriginal dreamtime, the Mappaemundi, the yatra (pilgrimage) maps, representations from Islamic cosmological diagrams and illuminated manuscripts. Nidhi uses natural dyes, 24 carat gold and silver, handmade paper and silk to document her experience of the world. 

 

Follow Nidhi’s virtual residency on Instagram @nidhik2 and via her Blog.

 

Yingmei Duan, virtual artist in residence at Van Gogh House.

 

Yingmei, based in Germany, is a curious observer who asks questions of all facets of life in order to continuously learn and develop. For the past 24 years she has concentrated her energy and creativity on making performance art and researching the medium. 

 

Follow Yingmei’s virtual residency at https://vangoghhouse.co.uk/yingmeiduan/

 

Liliya Lifanova, virtual artist in residence at 575 Wandsworth Road.

 

Liliya is currently based in Portugal. Her interdisciplinary practice is anchored by the idea of the fragment, a metaphor for her identity and a symptom of a broader cultural condition. Working on the fringes of mediums she produces paintings, sculptures, performative objects, and garments that are folded together in immersive mixed-media installations and performances that instigate at once the sense of familiar comfort and disorientation, uncertainty. She strives toward such results with the way that she fabricates and stages her pieces, positioning the viewers amidst a tactile mise-en-scène where canonical literary references are quoted, mistranslated, mispronounced, or misinterpreted supplying a frame for the formal rituals and choreography invented around the activation of her various objects. 

 

Mohammad Sabir, virtual artist in residence at AHRDO / Afghanistan Memory Home.

 

Currently based in London, Sabir was born in 1991 in Kabul, Afghanistan. In 1996, his family migrated to Pakistan, and during that period, he developed an interest in art and learned painting in amateur courses. He returned to Afghanistan in 2001 and continued to study painting in Kabul. In 2021 he was awarded a BA in Graphic Design from Kabul University and became an assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Kabul University. In 2023, Sabir did his Master's degree in MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Instagram @moh.sabir_sabir