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, the senses, 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, food, found objects, photography, 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 socially engaged commission with Cement Fields to commemorate 200 years of the RNLI – Words on the Wind 2025, a site-specific intervention in a Thanet cave, called 'Home’ 2023 and 2025, a light installation 'Unconditional’ 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.
Recent exhibitions include, Let’s Pretend… and Seeing as Ceremony, as part of Off Season Margate 2026, Unconditional and Expressions of Love, as part of 4 Years in Dreamland at Quench Gallery Margate 2025, A gift more precious than… , In My Own Words, and Catching Feelings, as part of We went outside and it’s the entire earth at Open school East 2024.
I have an active and varied social practice with an emphasis on co-creation, working on projects and programmes at the intersection of art and; the NHS, community services, mental health, adult homelessness, ecology, and community cohesion.
I was awarded Arts Council (DYCP) funding in December 2022, was part of the 2022 cohort of the Autograph Gallery: PILOT mentoring programme, and the 2024/25 cohort of the Cement Fields Foundation mentoring programme. I was selected as one of 10 artists as part of an artist film profile project - Medway Superstars in 2025, part of The Gathering organised by Iniva in 2024 - a select gathering of UK based artists and cultural workers in exploration of restorative practices, and have recently been selected on the 2026 cohort of the Climate and Adaptation course, with The Experimental School of Urban Echologies.
You can download my creative CV here.