RSA 2024 GRADUATES

2024BA → Siuli-mo Pal

Is this your legacy, oil on canvas, 81cm × 101cm, 2023.

Siuli-mo Pal

BA in Art and History of Art

Siuli-mo Pal is a Art and Art History student at the University of Reading in her final year. She predominantly works with paintings, occasionally working with film. Her identity plays a significant role as she tries to create art that makes commentary on the British Raj and its effects on the South Asian diaspora. Characteristics of her painting include; dramatic shadows, a limited colour palette and a neon pink underpainting. This is to emphasise the heightened emotions that are inherited with forced mass migration and human suffering at the hands of colonialism. Her paintings often have iconographies of wheels and trains, this is a choice she makes in paintings to show the connection between the ‘legacy’ of the railway systems the British had left behind – but at what cost? These images help Siuli to also represent the constant state of moving, migration and change and how it is ever so present within the diaspora.

Is this your legacy 2, oil on canvas, 81cm × 101cm, 2023.
Journey On(e), oil and acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 210cm, February 2024.
Journey T(w)o, oil and acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 210cm, February 2024.
Journey T(w)o (close–up).

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