2025 - 2026 embroidery project.
In 2025 and 2026, a new project will be developed in collaboration with embroidery ateliers in India, based in Mumbai and Lucknow. The project explores intersections between textile traditions and contemporary painting, producing a body of work that combines hand embroidery with painted elements. Supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation and Creative New Zealand, the work draws on the material histories of Indian craft while extending an ongoing interest in hybridity and cross-cultural collaboration.
Images are of works in progress at the embroidery atelier in Mumbai.
The 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi Kerela, India
Otobong Nkanga, Soft Offerings to Scorched Lands and the Brokenhearted, 2025
Finishing details on silk embroidery with oil paint on linen
A blend of five-toned, hand-dyed katdana, directional application
Silk and acrylic thread selection box
Colour swatch tests
Oil paint, silk, acrylic, and katadana beads on linen.
Lower Parel, Mumbai, outside the atelier
