A highly commended artist and designer, Leeds born Palvinder Nangla produces what could be rightly called a diary of thoughts and emotions, going through a psychoanalytical unconscious mental process while consciously trying to make sense of this life. 

His mixed media pieces speak in the most detailed manner about what he feels needs expression in a given moment and requests emotional response from the viewer in a subtle and implicit manner.

Palvinder has been familiar to textiles and embroidery from a very young age. By the helpful hand of his grandmother who encouraged and supported his artisitic aspirations, he learned the art of embroidery. His British-Asian background is a great influence in his mixed-media work, celebrating multiculturalism and humanity as a whole.

The imagery of his work is inspired by memories of India, the native country of his parents, and visual impressions that he collects during his forays. He  sometimes tells a very personal story; sometimes it is socio-political, other times just a pure aesthetic exercise for his own pleasure. With meditative concentration, he attaches and embroiders sequins, beads, gemstones, badges, buttons, paper, toy figures, and any other things he has collected on his daily forays to his base material

Palvinder regards his works as “communication objects” weaving cultural symbolism into every piece, and through his unique approach to artistic expression he inspires the audience to have the courage to search and find.

As “eyewitnesses”, we all resonate with the mysterious stories and experience them in our own unique way.

“I have an unhealthy obsession with embellishment, but this drives me to constantly find new ways of doing it, surprising even myself with some of the results I come up with…”

Education

Bucks New University, BA Surface Design Royal College of Art, MA Constructed Textiles Ecole Lesage, Tambour Beading

Shows

Beijing Design Week, 2010 Salone del Mobile, Milan, 2010 IMM, Cologne, 2010 Maison & Objet, Paris, 2009 ICFF, New York, 2009 IMM, Cologne, 2008 ICFF, New York, 2007 Indigo, Paris, 2006 Texprint, London, 2006 Ambiente, Frankfurt, 2006 ICFF, New York, 2004 Ambiente, Frankfurt, 2004 New Designers, London, 2003

Awards

Mantero Prize, 2006 The Texprint Chairman’s Prize, 2006 The Rug Company, 2004 Browns Competition, 2004

Exhibitions

Lewisham Art House, London, 2024 The Paxton Centre, London, 2024 Jay & Co Pop Up, London, 2024 Park Royal Design District, 2023 Deptford X, London, 2022 Lewisham Art House, London, 2021 Lewisham Art House, London, 2019 Opus Gallery, Stow on the Wold, 2009 Vileroy & Bosch, Milan, 2006