About the Artist

Jas Dhillon is an artist and artist-curator with an expanded practice.  She uses her Punjabi, Sikh, Indian heritage, and a deep reverence for nature and spirituality, to create spaces for a tender and sensitive reflection on ideas of identity, rootedness and belonging.

I am a UK based artist who works with objects, memories, stories, and feelings, to create spaces for thoughtful reflection and connection.

Deeply inspired by my Punjabi-Sikh heritage, I am interested in unveiling the extraordinary in the ordinary, and the idea that art is not separate from life. But that life, nature, and spirituality, are all art. And as such we are all artists. My practice so far has used; fabric, Punjabi script, screen printing, neon, sound, scent, found objects, and outdoor spaces.

I am an Artist Associate Alumni (2023/24) from Open School East where I placed special focus on exploring my approach to social practice, and am a resident artist at People Dem Collective,

My projects include a site-specific intervention in a Thanet cave, called 'Home’ 2023, a light installation for the Glow Illumination trail 2022, curation of the Whitstable Biennale 2022 short film programme, co-curation and commissioning for the Estuary Festival 2021 opening weekend programme, and a commission for Margate Now 2020.

I was awarded Arts Council (DYCP) funding in December 2022, and was part of the 2022 cohort of the Autograph Gallery: PILOT mentoring programme.

You can download my creative CV here.