Rajistani Cricket Pad #2, 2003, marble and silk, 88 x 61 x 2.5 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with funds from The Sculpture Fund, 2023
Rajistani Cricket Pad #2 was part of 2024 AGO exhibition Sarindar Dhaliwal: When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colours that spanned more than 40 years of artmaking by the South Asian Canadian artist. Characterized by intense colour and compelling imagery, Dhaliwal’s art investigates memory, identity and migration.
Dhaliwal was born in Punjab, India, and raised in London, England, before moving to Canada at age 15. Geographies—both physical and psychological—underscore her practice, and poetic short stories often accompany her artwork. Canadian novelist Kerri Sakamoto writes that “Dhaliwal retrieves images from childhood … collecting the bits of self that have been fragmented and displaced across continents, cultures, and history.” While she confronts painful colonial narratives as well as personal and cultural traumas within her practice, her world is filled with rich colour, vivid stories, and beauty.
Rajistani Cricket Pad #2, 2003, marble and silk, 88 x 61 x 2.5 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with funds from The Sculpture Fund, 2023
Rajistani Cricket Pad #2 was part of 2024 AGO exhibition Sarindar Dhaliwal: When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colours that spanned more than 40 years of artmaking by the South Asian Canadian artist. Characterized by intense colour and compelling imagery, Dhaliwal’s art investigates memory, identity and migration.
Dhaliwal was born in Punjab, India, and raised in London, England, before moving to Canada at age 15. Geographies—both physical and psychological—underscore her practice, and poetic short stories often accompany her artwork. Canadian novelist Kerri Sakamoto writes that “Dhaliwal retrieves images from childhood … collecting the bits of self that have been fragmented and displaced across continents, cultures, and history.” While she confronts painful colonial narratives as well as personal and cultural traumas within her practice, her world is filled with rich colour, vivid stories, and beauty.
