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“I’m passionate about the importance of art in society, its power to illuminate and enrich our emotional worlds, its ability to question, heal and transform people’s lives.”
Curator:
Since Graduating in Fine Art & Music (1997), Devi has built extensive experience across Arts-related environments, working in music publishing, managing British commercial contemporary galleries, opening her own Art Centre in south London and most recently as Artistic Director of the Siren Arts & Environmental Festival.
Currently based at Thompson’s Gallery (Aldeburgh), which specialises in modern British artists, and also contemporary and Scottish colourists, Devi has led representation for the gallery at national art fairs, managed and curated the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower sculpture gardens, and devised a series of innovative ticketed art concept talks.
Devi was previously director and owner of popular South-London Gallery & Arts Centre ‘Melting Pot’. Here she found her calling, and the ambition to build an inclusive environment, a community where multi-arts-based making and performing opportunities were created, available to everyone.
“I’m driven to communicate and celebrate artistic voices, to champion and amplify awareness of their art and ideas. The joy for me, comes from growing relationships of mutual trust and understanding with artists, to nurture and catalyse their very best work.
As both a curator and artist, I feel that having understanding and practical experience of the two disciplines is extremely useful, they compliment and inform each other.”
Artist:
Born in London, Devi studied fine art specialising in printmaking. Since 2003 she has put down roots in the town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, producing many original works. Her pieces have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the UK, and appear in private and corporate collections worldwide.
“Creating is my time to completely zone-in and tune-out, it’s almost a meditative act. The method and process of preparing a print is ritualistic, it feels at once ancient and new. What I love about this medium, is that no two prints are ever the same, each one concentrating the energy of the current mood into a moment captured.
It’s hard to define what my work is about, there are many things, but it is definitely inspired by the spirit of the natural world around me, looking to find abstract patterns in the everyday, and seeks to crystallise moments of magic.”
Art For All:
“I believe in people, the creative soul in every diverse one of us, that art should be for everyone, open and inclusive, operating at the heart of human connection, giving shared experiences to bring us together.”