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Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials at Nunnery Gallery

Name: Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials at Nunnery Gallery
Start: 2026-10-09T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-12-20T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials at Nunnery Gallery

Time10am

DateFri 9 Oct

Bow Arts is delighted to present a solo exhibition from artist and long-time studio holder Bhajan Hunjan. 'Bhajan Hunjan: speaking through materials' will, for the first time, bring together works from Hunjan’s rich and various career to date, spanning over 40 years of practice. Hunjan’s ambitious and dextrous use of materials has tied together her practice both in and outside of the gallery. The exhibition will take us on a journey to explore this dexterity, bringing together print, painting, sculpture and collage from across Hunjan’s career. The show will also bring to light Hunjan’s innovation with materials within public art – such as silk-screen printed glass, laser-cut acrylic and metal, and stonework – together with documentation of the closely collaborative working process behind her public artworks. Guided by a unique visual language of line, rhythmic pattern and symbols, Hunjan’s work pushes the boundaries of meaning as well as materials, often speaking powerfully for women and diaspora communities. Drawing on her Kenyan upbringing, Sikh heritage and experience of moving to the UK in the 1970s, Hunjan’s work plays an important role in the history of women artists. She...

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