Shanti Panchal (born 1951) is an Indian-British artist.[1]
Life
editShanti Panchal was born in Mesar, a village in Gujarat, and studied at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Bombay.[2] He took part in several exhibitions in India,[1] before moving to the United Kingdom in 1978,[3] the recipient of a British Council Scholarship to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art. Since that time he has lived in London.[2]
The India High Commission invited Panchal to restore damaged murals. He also took part in several group exhibitions before becoming involved in the black art movement in the mid-1980s. In 1984 the Greater London Council held an Anti-Racist year, and commissioned four murals in sites linked to black and Asian British populations. Panchal and the young artist Dushka Ahman were provided with a permanent mural site, but local community consultations rejected their initial proposals as too radical.[1][4]
Panchal has been artist-in-residence at the British Museum, the Harris Museum in Preston and the Winsor & Newton Art Factory in London.[2]
In 2015, Shanti Panchal won the third biennial self-portrait prize.[5]
In 2016 Panchal criticised the artist Anish Kapoor for claiming a monopoly on the artistic use of the material Vantablack.[6][7]
In August 2020 Panchal and Rachel Dickson co-curated 'Midnight's Family: 70 Years of Indian Artists in Britain', a virtual exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum.[8]
Panchal is an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c Niru Ratnam (2002). "Panchal, Shanti". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 445. ISBN 978-1-134-70024-0.
- ^ a b c d Shanti Panchal, Royal Society of British Artists. Accessed December 6, 2020.
- ^ Stephen Whittle; Dinah Winch (2009). At the Edge: British Art 1950-2000. Gallery Oldham. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-9550385-6-3.
- ^ "Art on the Underground to present mural by Shanti Panchal at Brixton Tube in November - EasternEye". 22 October 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2015". Artsy. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ Henri Neuendorf, Anish Kapoor Angers Artists by Seizing Exclusive Rights to ‘Blackest Black’ Pigment, artnet, February 29, 2016. Accessed December 6, 2020.
- ^ Klaas Jan van den Berg; Ilaria Bonaduce; Aviva Burnstock; Bronwyn Ormsby; Mikkel Scharff; Leslie Carlyle; Gunnar Heydenreich; Katrien Keune (2020). Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings. Springer Nature. p. 73. ISBN 978-3-030-19254-9.
- ^ Gloria Tessler, Art Notes, AJR Journal, October 2020, p.8. Accessed December 6, 2020.