Eleanor Sanghara is a British-Punjabi artist, curator, and cultural producer.
Sanghara’s practice spans photography, film, sculpture, writing, installation, and community-led engagement. Her work engages with forms of refusal that often occur in the in-between spaces of physical and digital production. She is particularly interested in the self-coined term ‘glitched-mixed-body’ as a practice of bringing forward anti-colonial perspectives on the (mis)imaging of mixed bodies throughout history. Rooted in narratives of fugitivity, forbidden love, and intimacy, her work explores the process of ‘brownness and whiteness becoming Britishness’. All of this converges as a site to refigure the relationships between the ‘elsewhere’ and the ‘homeland’, the ‘legible’ and the ‘illegible’.
Sanghara was the recipient of the Ingram Prize Residency Award, the Barry Martin Award for Experimental Art and the Central Saint Martins’ Dean of Academic Programmes Award.
She recently undertook a residency at Hestercombe Gallery, with a focus on the deviance of, and threat posed by, non-white bodies within British Heritage sites.
She also co-founded the community collective ‘No Man’s Land’, which upholds global majority artist-led programming and curation through the celebration of mixed histories and alternative modes of storytelling.
Sanghara has worked across museums and galleries in arts and cultural programming including Hauser & Wirth, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Central Saint Martins, and, currently as Engagement Producer at Arnolfini.
Contact: eleanorgustard@hotmail.co.uk
Instagram: @eleanor.sanghara
CV
Awards
The Ingram Prize Nominee & Residency Recipient, 2022-23
The Barry Martin Award for Experimental Art, 2022
Central Saint Martins Dean of Academic Programmes Award, 2022
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Shortlist, 2022
Residencies
Hestercombe Gallery, artist-in-residence, selected by Jo Baring and The Ingram Collection, 2024
The University of Oxford, Centre for Arts, Humanities and Digital Scholarship, 2022
Institutional / Organisational Roles
Bath Art Depot (BAD), Collective Member, 2025 - Present
Arnolfini, Engagement Producer, 2025 – Present
Hauser & Wirth, Learning Coordinator, 2023 – 2025
Central Saint Martins, Associate Lecturer / Graduate Teaching Assistant BA Fine Art, 2022 - 2023
Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Learning Programme Assistant, 2022 – 2023
Writing / Publications
Shade Art Review, Guest Writer with Lou Mensah, 2025 (upcoming)
Freelands Foundation, Edges, essay written for the Freelands Foundation Studio Fellowship exhibition and publication ‘Enfold, Unfurl’, 2025
The Ingram Shortlist, edited by Jo Baring, 2023
RAID.R, Issue 4, 2022
Collections
Rawlinson & Hunter collection, selected by Jo Baring
Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection, Motherland
The University of Oxford Centre for Arts, Humanities and Digital Scholarship
Programmes / Workshops / Talks
Hauser & Wirth, Education Lab: ‘Our Imaginary World’ for exhibition ‘Myths and Machines’, 2025
Hauser & Wirth, Reframing Sculpture, 2024
Hauser & Wirth, Education Lab: ‘Open Art School’ with Bath Spa University for exhibition ‘Phyllida Barlow, unscripted’, 2024
Hauser & Wirth, Safe Space Reading Circle (event series), 2024
Hauser & Wirth, Deep Listening / Drawing with Senses, 2023
APT Gallery, Own Your Flag, 2023
Tate Modern, Artist-in-Residence Workshops, 2022-23
Central Saint Martins, Spaces that Serve, 2022-23
The Koppel Project, Rituals for Home, 2022
Central Saint Martins, The Sonic Project with Ain Bailey, 2020
Selected Exhibitions
FORM-ICA (Bath), Invisible Foundations (with Bath Art Depot members Nicola Turner, Natasha Kidd, Catherine Parsonage, Kelsey Cruz-Martin, Anna Gillespie, Simon Periton, Dominic McKeown), 2025
APT Gallery (London), This is the House that Jack Built, 2023
The Koppel Project (London), Between Trenches, 2023
Unit 1 Gallery (London), The Ingram Prize Shortlist, 2022
The Crypt Gallery (London), Blinds shield me from what I distrust, 2022
The Koppel Project (London), you’ve got nothing to prove, 2022
Lethaby Gallery (London), Motherland, 2022
The Royal College of Art, Home | Away, 2022
Kupfer Gallery (London), Stagings, 2021
Cement Fields (Kent), The Return of the Fleet Spring Heads with Adam Chodzko, 2021
Education
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class, 2019-2022