ARTIST
Kulbir Bhandal (b.1973 Jalandhar City, India) graduated from the Camberwell College of Arts where she studied Fine art and Art History .
She worked as an art educator in London alongside running a design studio before moving to the Jurassic Coast in Dorset and reconnecting with her painting practice.
Recent exhibitions and shortlists have included, Evolver Art Prize 2021, 'Making it’ , Make South West, Bovey Tracey, Devon 2023, The Irving Open 2025, Jacksons Art Prize 2025
Currently showing with The Blue Shop Gallery’s ‘ Works On Paper 7' and a group show at the Terrace Gallery, London.
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Often working with acrylics on canvas and paper she draws inspiration from a mixture of observed, imagined and past spaces . The natural world is distilled down to simple forms which build through a dialogue, where form , feeling and memory find cohesive balance .
Her paintings explore how connection to place and belonging is nurtured . Born in rural India, growing up in London and now living in an intentional community in rural England, culturally and physically 'finding place' has become a source of inspiration from which she aims to distill her collective experiences of 'home’.
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Current
Works On Paper 7, Blue Shop Gallery, May, 2025
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Upcoming
Back To My Trees - group show, Terrace Gallery, August, 2025
Jackson Art Prize, longlisted, 2025
Irving Open, 2025
Open Studios, 2024
Dorset Art Week,Bridport, Dorset 2024
Making it ,group show - Make South West, Bovey Tracey, Devon 2023
The Other Art Fair - London 2022
Evolver art prize, 2020
Bridport Open Studios - Bridport, Dorset 2019
Mercury Music art prize, shortlisted, 1996