Prajvi Mandhani is a multidisciplinary artist from India living in the UK, working across video, sound, performance, drawing and installation. She recently graduated from Arts University Bournemouth with a BA(hons) Fine Arts. During her graduate project, she researched the local river of her hometown in Delhi NCR within themes of water ecology, climate change and eco-femisim. She is interested in researching ways of locating and situating climate change within local surroundings and communities. Her work is often realised through a practice of gathering, preserving and digitally foraging in her local surroundings, responding to the weather, rivers, streams and puddles.
Her most recent projects include Connected Grounds, an exhibition as part of her residency with BEAF, and VVV Residency (2024), an online residency with Vegapunk and VisualContainer. Her film Endlessly Hungry has screened internationally including Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival in Switzerland, Blackpool Film Festival in the UK, Goa Short Film Festival in India and is also shortlisted for the BFI Futures Film Festival 2025.
b. 2002, Lucknow (india), living and working in London
Group Shows:
2024 CVAN Graduate Art Show, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK
2024 "Connected Grounds", Boscombe Arts Depot, Boscombe, UK
2024 Graduate Art Show, Arts University Bournemouth, Bournemouth, UK
2024 "Mumasha, A hunger, an Endless Flow", Superitum Film Screening, Vegapunk VVV Residency, Naples, Italy
2024 "Mumasha, A hunger, an Endless Flow", Visual Container, Online Film screening
2024 "Inno Al Video", Boscombe Arts Depot, VVV Residency Film Screening, Boscombe, UK
2024 "Unearthed Motions", BUG Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
2024-2023 Showroom Live, Avenue Studios, Bournemouth, UK
2024 Open Studios, Avenue Studios, Bournemouth, UK
2023 BUG Gallery Launch, BUG Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
2023 "Giant Open: Environment", Giant Gallery, Dorset, UK
2023 "Roots", Boscombe Emerging Arts Festival, Boscombe, UK
2022 "Imprint", BUMF Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
2022 "Fair Play", Little Bournemouth Theatre, UK
Residency
2024-october Resident Artists Program with Bournemouth Emerging Arts (BEAF)
2024- Jan-March - VVV Resdiency with VegaPunk and Visual Container
Film Festivals
2024 Blackpool Film Festival: Young Filmmaker, Blackpool, UK
2024 MicroActs, London, UK
2024 Goa Short Film Festival, Goa, India
2024 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland
Education
2024 BA (Hons) Fine Arts 1:1, Arts University Bournemouth, UK
2020 IBDP, Genesis Global School, Noida, India