News
Contemporary Art Society / Nottingham City Museums acquisition
We are delighted that that two of Gurminder's works have been acquired for Nottingham City Museums by the Contemporary Art Society. The works will be on display at Nottingham Castle for around six months from early May 2024 and will be shown with another work of Gurminder's acquired in the mid-1990s.
'Where Are All the British Asian Artists?'
We are pleased to see Gurminder mentioned in the above-titled article by Alice Correia that accompanies the exhibition The World That Belongs to Us at The New Art Gallery Walsall from 24 November 2023 to 9 June 2024.Gurminder's work at the British Museum
We're delighted to announce that the British Museum has acquired two of Guminder's drawings. (Posted 15th March 2024.)
Photograph of Gurminder
We're very happy to see one of Roshini Kempadoo's superb photographs of Gurminder reproduced in Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-1990s Britain, ed. Joy Gregory and Taous Dahmani (2024). (For reference, Gurminder's dates are 1960-2021.)
Gurminder's work in a show at the Women's Art Collection
We are very pleased to announce that Gurminder has had three paintings selected for the exhibition 'The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg' organised by the Women's Art Collection at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK. The exhibition runs from 8 March 2024 to 8 September 2024. Further details are here.
Gurminder's work in the Sainsbury Centre Collection
We're delighted that Gurminder's painting 'Woman in a Landscape' (c.1987), previously on loan to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, has now (December 2023) entered their permanent collection. We enjoyed several visits to the Centre with Gurminder over the years and she was a great admirer of their collection, as are we.
An appreciation of Gurminder's work
We are very grateful to David Manley for this appreciation of Gurminder's work. David's post is in response to a retrospective show in October 2023.
Gurminder's work in 'Women in Revolt!' at Tate Britain
We are very pleased that Gurminder has two early paintings, 'Woman Strangling a Demon I' and 'Faces' in 'Women and Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990' at Tate Britain from 8th November 2023 to 7th April 2024.
Gurminder's work in RE/SISTERS at the Barbican
We are delighted that Gurminder has six paintings at 'RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology' at the Barbican in London, from 5th October 2023 to 14th January 2024. Gurminder's woman and tree paintings on display include Chipko I and II (shown in 'Black Art: Plotting the Course', curated by Eddie Chambers in 1988), and later watercolours.
Work on Loan
We are pleased to have loaned Gurminder's painting 'Woman in a Landscape (I)' (c.1987) to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. (Posted 26 July 2023.)
Keynote paper
On 7th June 2023 Tim Youngs gave a keynote talk at the Univerrsity of Salford on 'Travel in forms: painting, poetry, patterning', which focused on the relationship between Gurminder Sikand's art, his own poems, and travel studies.
Conference paper
On 21st April 2023, art historian and curator Dr Alice Correia presented a paper titled 'Local-International: Gurminder Sikand, regional connections and national narratives in the 1990s' at the conference 'Transforming collections, Rewinding Internationalism' at the VanAbbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, organised in collaboration with the University of Arts, London.
Ekphrastic poem
A poem by Tim Youngs after Gurminder's drawing 'Woman and Cell' and other of her late drawings has been published in issue 7 of Finished Creatures poetry magazine, spring 2023.
Poetry chapbook
Transmission Blues (Red Ceilings Press), a new poetry chapbook by Tim Youngs, written before Gurminder's passing but published in memory of her, has a c.1984 drawing by Gurminder on its cover and includes some poems inspired by her life and work. (Posted 25/5/22)
Forthcoming group show
We are very pleased to report that two of Gurminder's paintings have been selected for a major national group show opening in October 2023. Further details in due course. (Posted 12/5/22, amended 29/10/22)
Blogpost on Gurminder
We were delighted to see this blogpost on Gurminder by David Manley, whose support for her in his role at East Midlands Arts in the 1980s was very important to her. David's observations are accurate and beautifully expressed. The post also includes a photograph of one of Gurminder's early paintings.
Gurminder's library
Since December 2021 we have been tweeting a title a day from Gurminder's library. We hope that our doing so will be of interest to those who would like to know something more of the range of Gurminder's reading, within and beyond the visual arts. To view these tweets, please follow @youngs_tim We are compiling the titles into a document that we shall make available on request once the list is complete.
Obituary in the Guardian
We are very grateful to the Guardian for publishing the obituary of Gurminder by Tim Youngs in their 'Other Lives' section online on 14 February, 2022.
A poem for Gurminder Sikand by Andrew Taylor
We are deeply grateful to our friend, the Liverpool and Nottingham poet Andrew Taylor, for his poem in memory of Gurminder. It can be read at this blog post.
Gurminder Sikand by Nathaniel Sikand-Youngs
This short piece on Gurminder was published on the website of CVAN EM, the Contemporary Visual Arts Network for the East Midlands, on 13 January 2022.
"The Weaver of Songs". TG Gallery, Nottingham,
July 23rd – August 28th, 2021.
Details, including a link to a review in Art Review and to an audio recording of Gurminder in discussion with Tom Godfrey about her work, are at: http://www.tgal.co/gurminder-sikand
Featured in new book
Gurminder is one of the artists included in Celeste-Marie Bernier's book, Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015 (University of California Press, 2019)
"Breaking Boundaries"
Two-person show with Sardul Gill at Harrington Mill Studio Gallery, Long Eaton, Nottingham, 2017.
Cover image on poetry pamphlet
A detail from Gurminder's drawing, 'Two Children', is on the cover of Touching Distance, the debut poetry pamphlet by Tim Youngs, published by Five Leaves in November 2017.