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Research and Innovation interests
BIOGRAPHY
Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora (Panjabi, Brummie, artist, mother and educator) is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on a socially engaged practice, working with local communities. She is interested in celebrating untold stories while exploring visual representations of gender, ethnicity and place.
Dhaliwal-Boora creates work with the aim to empower and give voice to marginalised communities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Ikon Gallery, Wembley Stadium, UN Headquarters New York, New Art Exchange Nottingham, Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and Manchester’s People Museum, and has been widely published, including in The Sunday Times, The Royal Photographic Society Journal and The Guardian. She has won numerous prizes, including the British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain award for three consecutive years in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and the jurors pick for the LensCulture Art Photography Award 2024.
In June 2024 Dhaliwal-Boora was awarded an Arts Council Project Grant to make new work Fractured Landscapes and how we heal for a major solo exhibition at The New Walsall Art Gallery and Open Eye Gallery in 2026.
Knowledge Transfer interests
Research Interests:
Jaskirt’s main areas of research includes socially engaged practice, visual culture, and collaborative art practice methods.
Jaskirt's works and researches on projects and themes of:
- Representation of gender, ethincity and place
- Social practice
- Accessibility to the arts
- working with local communities on international themes
Education/Academic qualification
Education, PGCE Certificate in Education, University of Wolverhampton
1 Sept 2009 → 30 Jul 2010
Award Date: 31 Jul 2010
Communication, Culture and Media, BA Hons Degree, Coventry University
1 Sept 2004 → 31 Jul 2007
Award Date: 31 Jul 2007
External positions
Principal Investigator on fractured landscapes and how you heal
20 May 2024 → …
Founder of Women in Photo
1 Jan 2023 → …
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