Fellow's Profile
Turab Shah
Fellow's Profile
Turab Shah
Public Art as Relationship: Indigenous Models of Place and Community
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Creating sustainable, community-first art spaces through creative collaboration
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Locality
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London
Contact
Biography
I am a London-based artist. My work is focused on gathering people together to talk, to learn and to create films. This gathering is facilitated through a project I co-founded called Other Cinemas, which regularly hosts community screenings and discussions, centring Black and non-white communities and helping to build solidarities by connecting struggles. I also run a year-long film school for a small group of Black and non-white artists, which encourages them to learn, collaborate, create and build communities outside of institutional structures.
The films I create reflect on the forces which shape the communities I belong to, such as displacement, race, environmental harm and other legacies of colonialism. My films are also guided by questions of justice and how those in the margins create vital spaces for resistance, knowledge production, and alternative ways of being.
For my Fellowship, I will travel to Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia to continue learning from Indigenous artists, curators and organisations about how the connection to place can shape how public art is made and experienced outside of institutional settings.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
