(1966 - )
Bharti Parmar is a visual artist and academic. Her work often references the points of contact between art and craft. She received her BFA at Coventry Polytechnic in 1989, going on to the Royal College of Art in London to receive an MA in Fine Art Printing and then a doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton with a focus on the poetics of Victorian material culture. She has researched and spoken at length on material culture studies, textiles and craft, as well as Empire and the postcolonial archive. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery as part of the British Textile Biennial (2021); Hospital Club. London (2019); New Art Gallery, Walsall (2000) and in group exhibitions including at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2024); Compton Verney Art Gallery (2024); Crafts Council, London (2023 & 2022); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2022); Crafts Council, London (2021); Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art (2019); Royal College of Art, London (2018); and Chelsea College of Arts, London (2016)