Embassy: Exchange

Sutapa Biswas was born in India and educated in the UK since the age of four. She is an interdisciplinary, conceptual artist who works across a range of media including painting, drawing, film and time-based media. Biswas graduated with a BA in Fine Art with Art History from Leeds University and completed her postgraduate degree at the Slade School of Art. She was also a research student at the Royal College of Art. Biswas’ works have been exhibited globally, including solo exhibitions in Brazil, UK, USA, and Canada. Biswas was the 2008 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art, and is a European Photography Award 1992 nominee.

Angela Camacho aka @thebonitachola is a London-based artist, community organiser and domestic worker who fights for the rights of indigenous and Latinx communities and works to amplify the struggles of indigenous, trans and womxn activists in the Global South. She is a member of the grassroots collective Wretched of the Earth. Her practice is guided by the principle of becoming a good ancestor.

Subash Thebe Limbu is a Yakthung artist based in Kathmandu, Nepal and London. Working with sound, film, music, performance, painting and podcast, he draws on science and speculative fiction to address Indigenous struggles resulting from the effects of colonization and climate change. Limbu graduated from Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London and holds degrees from Middlesex University and Lalit Kala Campus in Kathmandu.

Sourabh Phadke is a mason and architect, who designs and builds with earth and allied traditional materials, and a schoolteacher, teaching science and social studies to children. He works with communities on aspects of building crafts, sustainable sanitation, appropriate technologies and design.

Tian Zhang is a curator, facilitator, writer and collaborative artist based on Dharug Country in western Sydney. Her practice is underscored by conversation, criticality, solidarity and joy. With a deep commitment to grassroots and collective methodologies, Tian is a founding co-director of Pari, a collective-run gallery for Parramatta. In 2021, Tian joined the Artistic Directorate of Next Wave in a new co-artistic leadership model for the organisation. Tian recently participated in Documenta Fifteen as co-facilitator of Gudskul's collective studies program — living, cooking, eating, cleaning and communing within the Museum Fridericianum for 50 days. Her text 'A manifesto for radical care or how to be a human in the arts' was published online by Sydney Review of Books, with print editions by Documenta Fifteen’s Lumbung Press and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Canada.