Umbrella Floortalk // Shivanjani Lal
Schedule
Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 at 12:30 am
UTC+10:00Location
Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts | Townsville, QL
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Umbrella Floortalk with Shivanjani Lal10:30am Saturday 20 September
Free event | Bookings are not required however capacity limits may apply.
Join Umbrella and artist Shivanjani Lal for a reflection on her work exhibited within 'Mere Porvaj [I am Remembering]'. Shivanjani will discuss her practice, the themes of migration, memory, and ancestral loss in her work. She will share insights into her process, including her use of printmaking, storytelling. and historical research to reclaim forgotten histories.
'Mere Porvaj [I am Remembering]' is on display from 19 September - 2 November 2025.
Find out more: www.umbrella.org.au/mere-porvaj/
Shivanjani Lal - 'Mere Porvaj [I am Remembering]' is presented by Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts in partnership with the North Australian Festival of Arts.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Shivanjani Lal is a Fijian-Australian artist and curator whose work uses personal grief to account for ancestral loss. Recent works have used story-telling, objects and video to account for lost stories of Girmitiya (Indenture) stories from the Indian and Pacific oceans, centring women’s perspectives. Truth-telling and monument making has become a focal point of Lal's research; attempting to decipher what has been lost and future possibilities. Between 2017-18, Lal sought to globalise her practice with a prolonged stay in India, which led to periods of research in Nepal, Bangladesh and Fiji. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Create New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, as well as the 2020 Georges Mora Fellow. In 2021 she graduated with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London with a Masters in Artists Film and Moving Image. In 2023 she received the QAGOMA Vida Lahey Scholarship and the Linden New Art’s Juncture Art Prize. In 2024 she participated in the AGNSW Paris Cité International des Arts studio residency program. In 2025, the artist has been included in the Sharjah Biennial: To Carry, while also premiering new work in a solo exhibitions at WSU’s Margaret Whitlam Galleries and Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts. Lal's work has been exhibited across Australia, and internationally.
Image: Shivanjani Lal using the printing press in The Studio at Umbrella during her 2023 JCU Special Collections Residency.
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Where is it happening?
Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Flinders St,Townsville,QLD,AustraliaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
