Tarla Patel
Tarla Patel is a Contemporary visual artist based in Coventry, Tarla’s work explores identity, memory and space through migration and storytelling. Patel is the legacy holder of her father’s photography, the Masterji archive: documenting South Asian community from 1950s to 2000. Co-published Masterji book (2017) https://masterji.photography/ and orator https://youtu.be/oDnBZR7qdVg .
Her work combines lens-based media to create visual narratives. She has worked on several projects with artists, academics, communities, and arts organisations and public participatory projects in the UK and overseas.
She is Co-Founder in COVert Arts; a grassroots artist collective in Coventry, that prioritises the interests of local communities that traditionally face barriers from the arts.
She is an International Digital Changemaker working on a project running from 2021 to 2022 with the support of Coventry City of Culture and the British Council. https://throughtheglass-amazingwomen.blogspot.com/
Tarla Patel is from Coventry in the UK, a diverse and ever-changing city of cultures.