Portfolio
Creative and Cultural Practitioner
From curating exhibitions to lecturing, hosting workshops and advising on cultural and diaspora heritage.
Anisha uses adornment as a tool for empowerment, connection and discovery.
Using story-telling and narrative, she curates exhibitions, and community experiences that unlock personal stories, and unravel rich histories that explore themes of reclamation, displacement, Diaspora and decolonisation.
Curation
Kedleston Hall | National Trust
My Adornment is my Power
Towards the end of 2022, I was approached by the National Trust to curate an exhibition around the untold stories of some of the South Asian jewellery pieces from the...
Her experience includes working with the National Trust, Derby Museums (where she’s also a trustee), Royal Museums Greenwich, University of Derby, University of Manchester, Nottingham Trent University and being awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant from Arts Council England.
Her latest projects have received coverage across media outlets such as Country Living Magazine and Derby Telegraph to name a few, and she has appeared on the BBC Online to discuss her work.
Project Production
Response and Reimagine Producer | Derby Museums
Empowered Adornment - Women of Derby
I have been working with Derby Museums as of of their Interpretation producers to develop and deliver a community-engaged project over the last twelve months- This was has been a continuation of my...
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Consultancy
Anisha works with museums and organisations to emded storytelling and narrative through researching, reimagining and decolonising historical objects. She advises spaces in making meaningful partnerships with global majority communities and collaborators.
Artistic Direction
Anisha has worked on a host of projects art direction music videos, editorial shoots and exhibitions. Her roles have included design ideas, styling to commissioning of collaborators for the project from videographers, fashion designers and make up artists.
Workshops & Sharing Circles
From jewellery making workshops for Diwali to hosting a sharing circle around the meaning of heirlooms for International Women‘s Day; Anisha loves holding space for participants to explore adornment, creativity & storytelling.
Lecturing and Talks
Anisha has guest lectured at various universities across the country speaking about her 10 years of experience as a working artist and designer. She has also been invited to speak across a host of panels and conferences about her project work.
Storytelling
Arts Council England Developing your Creative Practice
DYCP Empowered Adornment Update
As I am now 3 months into the project, I have been dying to share an update with you with how the project has been developing.Today I want to focus...
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