SHEILA GHELANI
Sheila is an artist whose work spans performance, installation, social art and moving image. She enjoys the weight of words when spoken or held and finds multiples of objects and actions arranged in repetitious patterns very reassuring. She likes to cut things up, break things apart and mix things together. She is also very interested in the practice of medicine and care and the relationship between art and science with particular focus on hybridity. Recent work includes sharing Common Salt in museums, libraries and arts spaces around the UK with artist Sue Palmer as part of her ongoing Rambles with Nature series, and developing Atmospheric Forces (also with Sue) as part of her latest project Elemental. Sheila was also part of Land Body Ecologies 2021-2023, the fourth collaborative residency group in Wellcome Collection’s Hub since 2014.
SHEILA GHELANI
Sheila is an artist whose work spans performance, installation, social art and moving image. She enjoys the weight of words when spoken or held and finds multiples of objects and actions arranged in repetitious patterns very reassuring. She likes to cut things up, break things apart and mix things together. She is also very interested in the practice of medicine and care and the relationship between art and science with particular focus on hybridity. Recent work includes sharing Common Salt in museums, libraries and arts spaces around the UK with artist Sue Palmer as part of her ongoing Rambles with Nature series, and developing Atmospheric Forces (also with Sue) as part of her latest project Elemental. Sheila was also part of Land Body Ecologies 2021-2023, the fourth collaborative residency group in Wellcome Collection’s Hub since 2014.
Monsoonal Multiplicities residency - Sheila Ghelani
On Considering The (English) Hedge
“How is London a Monsoonal City?”
For ten days between February 29th and March 30th 2021 Sheila was one of three artist who took up residence in the virtual space of Monsoonal Multiplicities - an exhibition of work arising from a five-year engagement with the monsoon in India, Bangladesh, London and Myanmar by the European Research Council funded project, Monsoon Assemblages.
Watch this short documentary by Hydar Dewachi to find out a little about she got up to.
“O long line of green... O Hedge O Hedge...”
In August 2013 Sheila spent two weeks in Cambridge with straybird working on Ramble 1 of Rambles with Nature hosted by Cambridge Junction. Together they made a series of four short 'cine-poems' for small screens, such as smartphones, and later presented them as an installation. On Considering The (English) Hedge was the first of the series to be released for viewing.
Click here to watch the other three cine-poems and find out more about Rambles with Nature.