JASMIR CREED
Statement
Jasmir Creed explores alienation and the transcultural by means of paintings of people in urban locations, informed by her identity as a British South Asian artist. Her works depict figures alone or in crowds, often including South Asian women. Her paintings show the city as a rich forest-like environment of the known and the unknown. On her journeys through cities, she observes and records crowds in flux in spaces of transit such as railway stations or of specific historical significance, such as Trafalgar Square, London. Pedestrians move across and among each other, regularly juxtaposed with different forms of architecture, resonant with cultural and political signification. Sometimes employing restrained, monochrome hues, other times more colourful and eclectic palettes, Creed’s practice captures the urban experience of multicultural Britain today.
Biography
Jasmir Creed is a practice-led PhD researcher at the Slade School of Fine Art. Solo exhibitions of her work include Utopolis at Warrington Museum 2023 and and Dystopolis at Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, 2018, with a catalogue distributed by Liverpool University Press. Group exhibitions include Asia Triennial Manchester, 2018; Home and Unhome at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China, 2020; and Art Contact, Istanbul Art Fair, Turkey 2021, Where is Home? tour including Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 2022-23. Her paintings are in collections including Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool and Imperial War Museum North.
CV
Email: jasmircreed@btinternet.com
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2023 Utopolis Warrington Museum and Gallery, Warrington
2018-19 Dystopolis, Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool
2017 Urban Forest, TheGallery@DeltaHouseStudios, London
Group
2025 Many Stories Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham (&UK Tour TBC)
2024-25 Title TBC Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool
2023 CHART Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London
2022 Where is Home? Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester & UK Tour
2022 Manchester Open 2022 HOME, Manchester
2021 Showcase, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2021 Isolated Contact Art Contact Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, Turkey
2020 Home and Unhome Sichuan Arts Institute, Chongqing, China 2020 Liv-Ing in Contrast, Art Ankara Contemporary Art Fair, Ankara, Turkey
2018 The Manchester Contemporary art fair
2017 Stockport Open, Stockport Art Gallery, Manchester
2017 Small World, PS Mirabel, Manchester
2017 The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2016 CGP Open, CGP Gallery, London
2016 Spectrum, PS Mirabel, Manchester
2015 We all Draw, Bargehouse, at the Oxo Tower, London
2015 Warrington Contemporary Open, Warrington Museum
2015 Shelf Life, PS Mirabel, Manchester
2015 MFA Degree show, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2014 Red Xmas, Studio 1.1, London
2014 The Interim, The Crypt Gallery, London
2014 Circumscape, Norman Plaistow Gallery, London
2013 BA Degree Show, Wimbledon College of Art, London
Awards
2021 Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice
2018 Arts Council England funding for solo exhibition Dystopolis,
Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool
2016 Arts Council England funding for solo exhibition Urban Forest, TheGallery@DeltaHouseStudios, London
Collections
Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester