Father’s Shoes, made by Jasleen Kaur for her MA graduation show at the Royal College of Art in 2010, derives from two pieces of her father’s footwear. In a near-seamless relationship, the combination of these found objects captures the artist’s description of her father as ‘a proper business man improperly dressed.’ This work signifies a shift in Kaur’s practice, when she had completed her two-year studies in jewellery and metalworking. Her work moved away from these disciplines towards a more direct relationship with objects, and a desire to bring them together to explore how they ‘speak to each other’. Kaur has described
Father’s Shoes as signifying ‘..the real start of my journey in making’.
