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= Jasleen Kaur =

Jasleen Kaur (born 1986) is a British-Indian contemporary artist living in London, United Kingdom. She works with sculpture, video and writing, and has a particular interest in found and refashioned objects. Her work focuses on exploring culture, history and identity.

Early Life
Jasleen Kaur was born in 1986 in Glasgow, Scotland. Her parents are second-generation immigrants – her grandfather emigrated from Punjab to Glasgow in the 1950s.

From a young age, she worked in her father’s hardware business, “Hardy’s Hardware”, which caused her to develop an interest in found objects.

Would draw a lot as a kid using crayons and colouring books as time passed eventually, she was doing 10-hour art homework for her Highers while losing herself in the moment. She views this as a from of bliss and survival.

She was encouraged by her art teacher at school to attend life drawing classes in the evenings, and to apply to Glasgow School of Art.

Education
Kaur studied a Bachelor of Arts in Jewellery and Metalwork at the Glasgow School of Art, from which she graduated in 2008.

She then moved to London to complete a Master’s degree in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art (graduated in 2010). Originally did not know about the Royal College of Art only when her teacher mentioned that she should apply that she did.

Projects
this section is about the projects Jasleen kaurs has undertaken over the years.

Be like teflon - 2019
“Be Like Teflon” is a book written by Jasleen Kaur co-edited by Catriona Duffy, lucy McEachin and Panel for Glasgow Women’s Library who also commissioned the book. The book was published by Dent-De-Leone as well as Glasgow Women’s Library.  

The book contains an assortment of essays and recipes tackling with topics like what it means to be an Indian woman in the UK, unspoken traumas/historys, the effects of colonialism, how we eat/cook food reflects upon us and cultures. The book was written as a form of self-discovery  for Jaslene Kaur reflecting upon her own life experiences as a woman as well as her mother and grandmother.

In July of 2021 Jasleen Kaur hosted her first solo exhibition in London hosted at the Copperfield gallery named after the book “be like a Teflon”. the space of the gallery used a viewing space for a reading of her book as well as a viewing of her film “Ethnoresidue”. The exhibition lasted from the 4th of June 2021 to the 23 July 2021.

My Body is a Temple of Gloom - 2021
The art installation named “My body is a Temple of gloom” is part of the Tranquillity Exhibition commissioned and hosted at the Welcome Collection’s Gallery in London. The installation futures a mix of audio, physical, sensory, and visual media.

The installation displays fake burning stacks of Palo Santo, a fake large crystal lamp, a yoga matt, an archetypal soundtrack, two projectors each playing contrasting archival footage of white and brown people performing yoga.

My body is a temple of gloom” serves as a critique the multi-billion self-care and wellness industry. The media displayed was used as symbolism to satirize the industry. The large crystal lamp highlighting the exploitative mining of recourses and the Palo Santo representing the deforestation both used to meet the demand of the industry .