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Jasmir Creed is a practice-led PhD researcher at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Solo exhibitions of her work include ‘Utopolis’ at Warrington Museum (2023) and ‘Dystopolis’ at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool (2018), with a catalogue distributed by Liverpool University Press. Group exhibitions include ‘Asia Triennial Manchester’ (2018); ‘Home and Unhome’ at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China (2020); ‘Art Contact’, Istanbul Art Fair, Turkey (2021); and the ‘Where is Home?’ tour, including Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2022–2023). Her paintings are in collections, including the Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, and the Imperial War Museum North.

March 2024

Jasmir Creed explores alienation and the transcultural by means of paintings of people in urban locations, informed by her identity as a British South Asian artist. Her works depict figures alone or in crowds, often including South Asian women. Her paintings show the city as a rich, forest-like environment of the known and the unknown. On her journeys through cities, she observes and records crowds in flux in spaces of transit such as railway stations or of specific historical significance, such as London’s Trafalgar Square. Pedestrians move across and among each other, regularly juxtaposed with different forms of architecture, resonant with cultural and political signification. Sometimes employing restrained, monochrome hues, other times more colourful and eclectic palettes, Creed’s practice captures the urban experience of multicultural Britain today.

Jasmir Creed, Coronight, 2020, oil on canvas, 120 x 130 cm



Jasmir Creed, Dislocation, 2020, oil on canvas, 120 x 130 cm
 

Jasmir Creed, UnWired, 2020, oil on canvas, 120 x 130 cm
 

Jasmir Creed, Other Daughter, 2021, oil on canvas, 120 x 130 cm



Jasmir Creed, Reverie, 2021, oil on canvas, 120 x 130 cm
 

Jasmir Creed, Nocturna, 2018, oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm

Jasmir Creed, Limbo, 2022, oil on canvas, 60 x 95 cm

Jasmir Creed, Conflict, 2023, oil on canvas, 120 x 130 cm