"I want my work serve as indictment of the social condition in India in the 21st century."
EXHIBITIONS
My Portfolio
EXHIBITIONS 2019
25th October 2019 - 10th January 2020
The Gentle Explosive Art of Yarn Bombing, St Pancras Hospital, London
12th - 17th November 2019
The International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition, The Clerkenwell Gallery, London
8th October to 19th October 2019
Fragility, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
7th - 21st September
Lovely's Gallery, Margate
20th July - 20th October 2019
The Art of Caring, St Pancras Hospital, London
10th June - 28th June 2019
Home Art Exhibition, Michaelhouse Café, Cambridge
28th May - 9th June 2019
Fragility, Prism, Hoxton Arches, London
21st January – 24th March 2019
Harley Open, Harley Gallery, Notts
15th January - 2nd February 2019
‘A few of my favourites’, Upstairs Gallery, Berkhamsted, Herts
EXHIBITIONS 2018
1st September - 21st September
Open Exhibition, Lovely Gallery, Margate
20th July - 18th October
Art of Caring Exhibition, St Pancras Hospital
2nd July - 21st July
Makers at Chelsea College of Art & Design 2018
7th - 17th June
Broadway Festival,Little Buckland Art Gallery Gloucestershire, Cotswolds WR12 7JH
30th May - 10th June 2018
Transient, Prism, Hoxton Arch, Hoxton, London
7th - 28th April 2018
Hand Made, Lovelys Gallery, 248 Northdown road, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent CT92PX
5th November – 11th January 2018
Sewing Circle Rethread,
St. Pancras hospital, Conference Centre gallery, 4 St. Pancras way, London, NW1 0PE
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Depth / Tiefe - a fiber art project of the Swiss Hand Embroiderers' Guild
TextileArt Around the World by Ellen Baker
Handmade in Britain: contemporary artisan's paperback by Suri Piyush
PRESS ARTICLES
Fiberart International
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Page 61 May 10, 2013
Review of The Women's Art Show 2011
Fairfields Art Centre, Basingstoke: Fairfields' fine show by ladies by Joanna Mace, 10/03/2011 in the Basingstoke Gazette
WEB ARTICLES
Aran Illingworth | Artsbeat – Derbyshire's free arts magazine
artsbeatblog.com/tag/aran-illingworth/
Aran Illingworth: Embracing Indian heritage
"Her characters are challenging but entirely convincing with no hint of sentimentality in their composition. They come out at us, literally, as a tangible presence"
Geoff Robson
AWARDS
THE PEOPLE'S PRIZE
2018
Broadway Festival Open Exhibition, Little Buckland Gallery
BEST IN SHOW PRIZE
2017
Lovely Gallery, Open Exhibition
NOMINATED FOR ARTS & CRAFTS DESIGN AWARD
2014
265 entries from 37 countries
PEOPLE'S PRIZE AT THE THEMED 'H' EXHIBITION
2012
Harley Gallery
UH ALUMNI PRIZE AT THE HERTFORDSHIRE OPEN EXHIBITION
2011
St. Albans
AN EMERGING DESIGNER AT ART, DESIGN & A TASTE OF SUMMER
May 2011
Blenheim Palace