Raksha Patel

Raksha Patel (b.1972, Leicester) studied MFA Painting at The Slade School of Art (1998).
Her practice focuses upon identity, which is explored through contemporary histories of place, migration, and diaspora. The images in her work are set within working class Northern landscapes that draw attention to cultural difference and the under-represented.

Raksha Patel is co-leading a new research group with Professor Daniel Sturgis on British Asian Visual Art post mid 90’s for British Art Network - partnered with the Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre. The research investigates the comparative invisibility of British South-Asian artists represented in national collections. The impetus to start this group came out of decolonising discussions between tutors and students at Camberwell College of Arts where she is currently a senior lecturer on BA Fine Art Painting.

Selected exhibitions include: Stellatus Re-Visited, Site Gallery (2019) The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (2019 and 2020) Home and Unhome, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing (2020) Florilegium, The Royal College of Physicians (2018), Uproot, The South London Botanical Institute (2018), Painting Now, Studio One Gallery (2017) Lives, Loves and Loss, National Trust, Fenton House, (2016) The Trouble with Painting Today, Pump House Gallery (2015), Forget-Me-Knot, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery (2013), Tradition and the Passing Down of Culture, Pump House Gallery, (2013) We were Trying to Make Sense, 1 Shantiroad, Bangalore (2013) Jerwood Drawing Prize (2011) The Mausoleum of Lost Objects, inIVA, (2008), The Redemptive Beauty of Life After Death, The Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham (2007) Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts (2006) Creative Connections, The Whitechapel Gallery (2005)


Postgraduate Diploma Illustration 1994-1996 Central Saint Martins