Eleanor Sanghara is a British-Punjabi artist and educator.
Sanghara’s practice spans across photography, film, sculpture, installation and community-led engagement. Their work engages with forms of refusive performances that often occur in in-between spaces of physical and digital production. They are particularly interested in the self-coined term ‘glitched-mixed-body’ as a practice of bringing forward anti-colonial perspectives on the imaging of mixed bodies throughout history.
Rooted in narratives of fugitivity, their work explores the process of ‘brownness and whiteness becoming Britishness’. All of this converges as a site to refigure the relationships between the ‘elsewhere’ and the ‘homeland’, the ‘legible’ and the ‘illegible’.
Sanghara was the recipient of the Ingram Prize Residency Award 2022, the Barry Martin Award for Experimental Art and the Central Saint Martins’ Dean of Academic Programmes Award 2022.
They also co-founded the community collective ‘No Man’s Land’ which upholds artist-led programming and curation through a celebration of mixed histories and alternative modes of storytelling.
Sanghara has worked in community spaces, museums and galleries in arts, learning and cultural programming including Hauser & Wirth, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the Koppel Project and Central Saint Martins.
Contact: eleanorgustard@hotmail.co.uk
Instagram: @eleanor.sanghara
No Man’s Land: @n.m.land
CV
Education
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class, 2019-2022
Awards
The Ingram Prize Nominee & Residency Recipient 2022
The Barry Martin Award for Experimental Art 2022
Central Saint Martins Dean of Academic Programmes Award 2022
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Shortlist 2022
Collections and Acquistion
Rawlinson & Hunter collection, selected by Jo Baring
Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection, Motherland
The University of Oxford Centre for Arts, Humanities and Digital Scholarship
Residencies
Hestercombe Gallery, artist-in-residence, 2023 - 2024
The University of Oxford Centre for Arts, Humanities and Digital Scholarship, 2021 - 2022
Pedagogy, Learning and Public Programming
Hauser & Wirth, Learning, 2023 - 2024
Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Art, 2022 - 2023
Tate Britain and Modern, Learning, 2022 - 2023
Selected Exhibitions
Qube East (London), Come sit in the dissonance, 2023
APT Gallery (London), This is the House that Jack Built, 2023
OPENing Gallery, The Koppel Project (London), Between Trenches, 2023
Unit 1 Gallery (London), The Ingram Prize Shortlist, 2022
The Crypt Gallery (London), Blinds shield me from what I distrust, 2022
The Koppel Project (London), you’ve got nothing to prove, 2022
Fabbrica del Vapore, Screenings (Milan, Italy), Fame Prayer, 2022
Lethaby Gallery (London), Motherland, 2022
The Royal College of Art, Home | Away, 2022
Gaze Gallery (West Midlands, UK), Beyond the Binary, 2021
Kupfer Gallery (London), Stagings, 2021
The Estuary Festival (Kent, UK), The Return of the Fleet Spring Heads, with Adam Chodzko and Cement Fields, 2021
Central Saint Martins, The Sonic Project, with Ain Bailey, 2020
Workshops
Hauser & Wirth, Deep Listening / Drawing with Senses, 2023
APT Gallery, Owning Your Flag, 2023
Nova Gallery, Comfort Talks, 2023
Tate Modern, Artist-in-Residence Workshops, 2022 - 2023
The Koppel Project, Rituals for Home, 2022
Central Saint Martins, Spaces that Serve, 2022-2023
Publications & Interviews
Unit 1 Gallery The Ingram Shortlist, edited by Jo Baring, 2022
RAID.R, Issue 4, 2022
Original Magazine, 2021
Ekphrasis Magazine, 2021