TRACES: BAGRI ART TRAIL

Bagri Art Trail

Traces is the first Bagri Foundation art trail organised on the occasion of Asian Art in London 2021. Three London-based contemporary artists are invited to respond with a micro-commission to the beauty and history of selected artefacts and antiques shown by three participating galleries.

Original written pieces are commissioned by early-career art historians selected in collaboration with the MA Modern and Contemporary Asian Art course at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.

The Bagri Foundation is a UK registered charity, inspired by unique and unexpected ideas that weave traditional Asian culture with contemporary thinking. The Foundation, with its roots in education, is driven by curiosity and a desire to learn, and aims for each project to challenge, engage and inspire.

bagrifoundation.org @BagriFoundation #BagriArtTrail Yarli Allison is a mixed media artist who focuses on grief, Asian diasporas, queerness, digital humanity; with sculptures, movingimages, creative technology, performance and drawings.

Marchant Gallery is a fourth-generation family-run gallery in Kensington Church Street, London, specialising in Imperial Chinese porcelain and works of art from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Zarah Hussain has spent many years perfecting the traditional techniques for creating mathematically precise, geometric art and then adapting them to produce unique works with a contemporary resonance across a range of disciplines.

Shahnaz Gallery specialises in Islamic and Asian art and antiques, internationally renowned for rare and important works of art.

Keith Khan is a multidisciplinary artist who creates an iconography that represents his beliefs through an amalgam of extreme simplification and geometry in digital and textile environments.

Peter Finer Gallery is a family business that specialises in Antique Arms and Armour from cultures worldwide, which has been established for over 50 years.