Back in February I got to run my workshop 'What Objects Remember' as part of the Bow Arts Artist Educators’ Retreat 2026
We spent the workshop exploring the strange personal and cultural memories found objects hold and how those memories shift, fragment and transform through storytelling and image-making.
Still thinking about the conversations that came out of this generous room of people.
We made a film reel of laminated talc and stamped loads of textures from the collection of found things, we drew their shadows, and became their voice. At the end the objects were placed back in my box and I haven't opened it since.
Beautiful photos by: Emily-Jayne Nolan
@bowarts
🩸𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙎𝙏 𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙏𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏💧
Featuring @beeta.k ❤️
“this is a dream archive of dreams i can’t remember to put in the dream journal i don’t have and photos that are losing their people and the colours of then that are in the things of now. this has words from my mother and her mother and sarees of their grandmothers but this is not all, this is a sliver of trying to learn how to drape a saree and how to make rajma”
Kash Saini’s book acts as an attempt to string together a narrative. By sewing together old family photographs with drawings and photos from present days, Kash tries to understand her lineage and her mother better.
Kash Saini is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, whose work explores memory, family, and language through the layering of text and image. Rooted in her familial archive, the practice investigates the act of adding colour, both literally and metaphorically to inherited histories.
Take a closer look at Kash’s works on familial guilt in our new publication “Bound by Blood/ Water”, launching on 16 Jan 2026 at The People’s Letters in London. 🧽🛋️⏰
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#artistofinstagram #smallpress #independentpublishing #art #fineart
For mom's birthday this year I tried drawing her 12 frames per second, I also made dinner, love you always
- Typewritten text from recent installation, Animation done on Animation desk (iPad)
#contemporaryart #installation #animation #text #illustration #typewriter
Install view from last night
"Beeta (I)"
Oil painting on wood panel/
a monochrome oil painting on bevelled edge plywood, based on a still from Mamu's wedding video. This was painted to learn my mother's face in her youth. To accept the blurriness of those memories, to accept the time that has pased, and to resist the residue that remains
"living, breathing soup of memory and imagination"
Text on A4 paper
"I forget everything"
an engraving of words my mother wrote in a 1985 letter sitting on an old index card drawer, with one stem
Darshana at The Exchange W9 (@theexchangew9
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Thankyou to the lovely @coconut.zine for asking me to be a part of this beautiful show
#oilonwoodpanel #oilpainting #contemporaryart #painting #artistlondon #oilpaint #artist #contemporarypainter
D-15, GreenPark Main
Oil Painting on Canvas 122 x 92cm & Book Installation
can you see I am very happy to be part of @__yourehome__ exhibition at The Good Rice :)
Open 14thJune - 29thJune Thursday - Sunday 12-5pm
📸 @conor.maroof
(This painting is an exploration of adding colour to
my familial archive. The photobook uses the text
to enable a dialogue between generations. There
is a strong combination of text and imagery in the
work, text as poetry, text as letters my mother wrote, text as text messages on my phone, sometimes sewn together with images from my archive: an endless collection of words and images, that attempt to define in my words and other words the undefinable.)
#painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart #londonexhibition
D-15, GreenPark Main
Oil Painting on Canvas 122 x 92cm & Book Installation
Installation shot for "You're Home" at The Good Rice @__yourehome__
📸 @conor.maroof
This painting is an exploration of adding colour to my familial archive. The photobook uses the text
to enable a dialogue between generations. There
is a strong combination of text and imagery, text as poetry, text as letters my mother wrote, text as text messages on my phone, sometimes sewn together with images from my archive: an endless collection of words and images, that attempt to define in my words and other words the undefinable.
#painting #oilpainting #contemporaryart
#exhibitionlondon