"I want my work serve as indictment of the social condition in India in the 21st century."
EXHIBITIONS
2021
9th January 2021
Letchworth Open, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, Herts
December 2020 - January 2021
‘’2020'' - Instagram Exhibition (Bobby forsythe)
2020
December 3rd - January 3rd 2021
International Art Show Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, US
5th - 19th December 2020
Swiss Fiber Arts, Klostertorkel Gallery Klostertorkel Maienfeld / Vorderwinkel 6 / 7304 Maienfeld, GR, Switzerland
3rd – 10th October 2020:
Swiss Fiber Arts, Un/Framed, Kunstraum Gallery, Winterthur, Switzerland
22nd September 2020 - 30th December 2020
Society of Women Artists 159th Open Exhibition digital exhibition
24th August - 6th September 2020
Society of Designer craftsmen, INTO THE LIGHT, THE OXMARKET, Chichester, West Sussex
12th May - 31st July 2020
Prism textiles, in search of (im)possibilities digital exhibition
6th July 2020 - 31st August 2020
Hertfordshire Open 2020 digital exhibition
21st January - 15th February 2020
Textile Exhibition at the Open Door, High Street, Berkhampsted Herts
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
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
http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Mother-Child-Stitch-Stories-exhibition/story-20248430-detail/story.html
Aran Illingworth | Artsbeat – Derbyshire's free arts magazine
artsbeatblog.com/tag/aran-illingworth/
Aran Illingworth: Embracing Indian heritage
http://www.textileartist.org/embracing-indian-heritage/
Meet the Artist Interview by Arnold's Attic
"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