Art As Education
Craft and Creative writing workshops
During my internship at The Geutanyoe Foundation in 2019, I led a series of craft and creative writing workshops for child refugees from Myanmar, Syria, and Afghanistan. Many of these children were living in temporary shelters or monastic schools, where access to creative and emotionally enriching activities was limited.
Through hands-on craft activities and guided creative writing exercises, the workshops offered a safe and joyful space for self-expression and storytelling.
My goal was to create a space whereby art can be a tool for healing and connection, helping children not only learn new skills but also feel seen, heard, and valued. Each session emphasised play, imagination, and emotional literacy, underscoring the role of art in nurturing resilience and identity in displaced and diasporic and displaced communities.
Guest Lecturing and Artist Talks
Haileybury College
as a part of Art Week 2025
Being invited back to Haileybury College as an alumni was a great privilege and a highlight of my 2025. I delivered a lecture titled "Repetition, Representation, and Reinvention in Contemporary Art," exploring how these concepts intersect within visual culture today.
I spoke towards how repetition inevitably produces variation, introducing subtle shifts where new meanings and perspectives can emerge.
Whether repeating words, ideas, or imagery online, we must remain conscious of not only who is speaking but whose voices are being left out. Representation matters, not only in what is shown, but in who gets to shape the narrative. As cultural participants, we are not passive consumers, but active agents in constructing the world around us.
I believe that contemporary art offers a powerful entry point for the next generation to engage, respond, and create, encouraging young people to think critically, express themselves and contribute to a more aware and educated tomorrow.
Repetition and Representation: How Many ways can you say the same thing?
CAP Symposium: Re-articulating
Art Education
Intersections was a collaborative research project as a part of CAP symposium 2025: Re-articulating art education. I worked alongside my group, Naiya Hohlidaki and Divyam Raghunath. We dissected the relationship between the body and the urban landscape, and how each is shaped by the other. Using London as our point of focus, we conducted psycho-geographic data collection, collecting both audio and visual data. One of my contributions in the group was using code to re-articulate social data, for example using an audio reactive histogram to visually transcribe the pulse of the city.
In our discussions we were lead to consider how institutions are cracking under the weight of capitalist ideologies, where the human body becomes a byproduct of overconsumption and overpopulation.Thinking more closely about re-articulating art education, we posited if our educational institutions reflect the fractured logic, and dysfunction of the city. With Masters degrees getting shorter and student intake getting higher every year, the student body is caught between roles of consumer and commodity.
