London
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14.01.2026
I exhibited the works below last week in London with my friend and business partner, Goose Leigh. It may be worth saying that the exhibition had no title beyond Edit 01. This wasn’t a cop-out (we hope). Rather, it reflected that the show was an offering of an India we have encountered – and, in…
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2O25. 2 – Arpita Singh, b.1937
‘This map is faulty, do not follow it’ is tucked into the border of My Lollipop City: Gemini Rising. In ‘Remembering’, the artist’s first solo outside of India, we are given permission to soar/drift/scuttle through an entire career. It is a complete pleasure, from the very moment after you pass this slightly confusing font. Singh’s…
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Anwar Jalal Shemza, 1928 – 1985
Shemza was born in Simla, now Shimla, and went to school in Lahore, then India, now Pakistan. It would be trite to try and render the dislocation of such circumstances. Perhaps you can do the thinking better than me. The context is that he graduated in 1947, a year in which several of his relatives…
G J Varley Art 