Shivangi Ladha graduated from Royal College of Art London, in 2016 with specialisation in MA Printmaking. Prior to this she pursued MFA in Fine art from Wimbledon College of Art, London and BFA In Painting from College of Art, Delhi University.

She has undertaken several residencies internationally and has consistently exhibited works at galleries like STPI, Singapore; Bankside, Jerwood Space, London; to name a few. Her works have entered prestigious collections such as the British Museum, V&A Museum; East London Printmakers, UK; Mead Museum, Women Studio Workshop, USA; Reliance Foundation, Anant Art Gallery, India; SNAP Studio, Canada and more. Her works have been published in Art in Print Journal, Fukt Magazine, Hindustan Times, Mid day, Outlook, Art Soul Life Magazine etc.

Recently she was awarded with the Global Talent Award by the Arts Council England and was nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award, a major international print prize. She is also receipt of the Taf Emerging Artist South Asia Award, Arts Family, 2021; New Prints Artist Development Award, International Print Centre New York (IPCNY), USA 2018; Anthony Dawson Young Printmaker Award, (Royal Society of Painters – Printmakers RE) 2017 and Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, UK to name a few.

My work questions the identity of our beloved human race. I use a self- referential process to channel my engagement with social, political, and ecological spaces through the human body. My prints represent the collective voice of a crowd – a crowd seeking to rise and transcend to a place or state where there is no differentiation between gender, sexuality, race, caste, creed, disability, and class, where we are essentially all one and the same from within.

I like my prints to be free and unrestricted; as such, I have attempted to break out of certain conventions of screen printing. In this work the drawings are repeated through the action of screen printing across a surface; I then incorporate pieces of tape and place them on top of the print, which covers, imposes, hides, reveals, and amplifies the bodies and their presence at the same time. An additional compositional layer, created with subtle coloured dots, rests atop. In its totality, tension is created between the organically hand-drawn and the mechanically reproduced states of making and experiencing the image.

The print traversing represents the collective voice of a crowd – a crowd seeking to rise and transcend to a place or state where there is no differentiation between gender, sexuality, race, caste, creed, disability and class, where we are essentially all one and the same from within.