About
Radha is a storyteller whose work intersects across colonialism, nature, religion, rituals, language, folklore and speculative futures. Writing is at the heart of her practise so any work that she makes always involves a text, alongside a physical or tangible element that people can interact with such as sculptures, prints, drawings, audio, installations, films and an invented language called Etsolstera.
Throughout history, humans have travelled fluidly between our world and the ‘underworlds’ or ‘otherworlds’.
Folklore tells us so much about what we can learn from these travels including how people resisted colonisation, re-built what was destroyed and practised solidarity with other species.
Radha’s practise explores folklore throughout history, and uses storytelling to build new ways of re-connecting us to our human ancestors, our ancestors that are other species and all the delicate magic that is being lost through colonisation. She works with older and existing folklore from Wales and India and also creates new folklore about rituals, magical objects, imagined lands and new planets.
Biography
Radha’s artist practise sits fluidly alongside 7 years of experience working across projects that bring together the arts, community engagement and audience development, and is passionate about projects that work sustainably and are generative for the communities they work with. She’s worked in film exhibition, the visuals arts and third sector in different capacities including; administration, producing and managing projects and events, film programming, fundraising, outreaching, script reading and development, designing and delivering creative workshops and more.
Her most recent jobs included being an Engagement Producer for Artes Mundi 10 and assessing applications for The Uncertain Kingdom, the Groundwork Collective and BFI Academy. Before this, she was the Programme and Outreach Coordinator at Gentle/Radical. She was also the ‘Made in Wales Officer’ at Film Hub Wales, developing strategies to promote Welsh Films and project managed a large D&I tender for the Arts Council and National Museum of Wales in 2020.
Currently
In 2024, Radha is working with The Welsh Asian Heritage Project to record and archive the histories of Ugandan Asians, like her grandparents, who came to Wales in 1972.
She is continuing to work on a performance piece called ‘That’s When We’ll Meet’, funded through Arts Council Wales ‘Creative Steps’ and is one of 4 mentees on the Wales Arts and Health Well Being Network’s pilot programme ‘Stepping In’.
Her collaborative practise with Umulkhayr Mohamed - DARCH - has been comissioned for Liverpool Biennal 2025.
Visit the Selected Works page to see more examples of her work.
