Permindar Kaur (born 1965, in

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) is a

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. She was included in the

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in 1996. She is shortlisted for the Freelands Award 2022 for her upcoming exhibition at

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Life and education

Kaur was born in Nottingham to Punjabi parents. She gained a BA from

Sheffield City Polytechnic Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The university is based on two sites; the City Campus is located in the city centre near Sheffield railway station, while the Collegiate C ...

in 1989, an MA from

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in 1992 and spent several years in Barcelona in the early 1990s.

Career and work

Kaur emerged to prominence during the 1990s. Her work is often concerned with themes surrounding the home, domestic life and childhood. The structure of the house itself frequently appears in her sculpture in works such as ''Overgrown House'' (2020). Items of domestic furniture such as beds and chairs also appear, often in outsized or distorted forms, resulting in an effect that is slightly ‘disconcerting’ or ‘unnerving’ as art historian

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has noted.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* ''Permindar Kaur: Outgrown'', The Art House, Wakefield (3 September – 13 November 2022) * ''Independent Thoughts: New work by Permindar Kaur'', Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery (27 March - 24 May 1998) * ''Cold Comfort'', shown in two parts at

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, Birmingham and

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, Coventry (18 May 1996 – 22 June 1996). Toured to Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (27 July – 31 August 1996)

Group exhibitions

* ''Permindar Kaur, Ranya Abdulateef and Ifa Mesfin Abebe: Dream Runner'',

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(28 September – 13 November 2022) * ''What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles'', New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge (17 February – 28 August 2022) * ''Animals & Us'',

Turner Contemporary Turner Contemporary is an art gallery in Margate, Kent, England, intended as a contemporary arts space and catalyst for the regeneration of the town. The title commemorates the association of the town with noted landscape painter J. M. W. Turne ...

, Margate (25 May – 30 September 2018) * ''Tread Softly,''

Yorkshire Sculpture Park The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England. It shows work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore and Barb ...

, Wakefield (27 May – 15 October 2017) * ''Invisible Cities'',

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, Edinburgh (8 – 22 February 1992) * ''Four X 4'',

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(12 October – 24 November 1991) * ''Let the Canvas Come to Life With Dark Faces'',

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, Coventry (14 April – 29 May 1990) and touring.

Collections

Permindar Kaur's work is part of the following collections: *

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, England *

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, UK * New Art Hall Collection, Cambridge *

Cartwright Hall Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samue ...

, Bradford *

Nottingham Castle Museum Nottingham Castle is a Stuart Restoration-era ducal mansion in Nottingham, England, built on the site of a Norman castle built starting in 1068, and added to extensively through the medieval period, when it was an important royal fortress and ...

, Nottingham

References

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