- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
Family photo albums: During my childhood I would love looking back over photographs in carefully compiled albums – these helped form strong memories of the time; holidays, friends, families, and travel between Bangladesh, India and Britain. Now I use the photographs as starting points for many of my works, creating a world of my childhood in paint. Literature: I studied Fine Art and English Literature at Exeter University (1998–2001) before my MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (2007–2009). I clearly remember, during a post-colonial literature seminar, first hearing novelist LP Hartley’s opening line to The Go-Between: ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ This…
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