British-Indian Art Schools and Colonial Legacies in Craft

Description

This paper offers a post-colonial and feminist analysis of craft. The first part considers the postcolonial and historical movement of arts and crafts in India-British schools (or colonial era British Art Schools in India) to contextualise racialised aesthetic and artisanal inequalities. The second part then performs a critical analysis of Sara Choudhrey’s creative work, which combines traditional craft techniques and digital technologies. It discusses how multiple, intersectional inequalities are spatialised within cultural education and cultural institutions. Class is often prioritised in analyses of precarity and cultural production (Brook, O’Brien and Taylor 2020), however this paper frames intersections of race, religion and gender within structural hierarchies of arts and crafts (see also Patel 2024; Patel and Dudrah 2022).

Period	8 Jul 2025
Event title	SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics): Extending the Debate on Craft: Work, Precarity, and Organising in Artisanal Industries
Event type	Conference
Location	Montreal, Canada, QuebecShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International