Raksha Patel
Lecturer - Corporate Events @Tate
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WORK HISTORY
Lecturer - Corporate Events @Tate
London, GB
I currently give talks and lectures for Corporate Events and the Private Tours Department – clients include the corporate sponsors, gallery and museum executives, diplomats and ambassadors, overseas university students, and UK based schools and colleges. The tours are based on the temporary exhibitions and collection displays.
EDUCATION
University of the Arts London
Postgraduate Diploma Central Saint Martins School of Art, Illustration
De Montfort University
Foundation Course, Fine Art
UCL
MFA Slade School of Art, , Fine Art - Painting
Norwich University of the Arts
BA Hons, Illustration
SKILLS
ABOUT RAKSHA PATEL
I am an artist, writer, socially engaged practitioner and lecturer. I have over two decades of teaching with a focus on inclusivity, anti-racism, and decolonising art-histories. Her pedagogical approach stems from her studio practice, research and lived experience. I currently work at Camberwell College of Art, UAL and the Tate galleries in London as a lecturer. I co-lead ‘British South-Asian Visual Art Post Cool Britannia’ for British Art Network. The research investigates the comparative invisibility of British South-Asian artists represented in national art collections. In 2021/22 I co-led/chaired three public facing events in which artists from the South-Asian diaspora discussed issues relating to representation, inclusion and anti-racism through their studio-practice. This project is supported and funded by British Art Network, The Paul Mellon Centre, Tate and the Arts Council of England. In 2024 I co-curated Standing Ground - Re-thinking the painted British landscape at Thames-Side Studio Gallery, London, September 2024. The exhibition showed 12 painters who investigate what the British landscape is today by challenging traditional notions of the rural idyll and English landscape painting and its connection to identity and nationhood. A 36pp exhibition catalogue was produced to accompany this exhibition, this was generously supported and funded by British Art Network, which is jointly supported by Tate and Paul Mellon Centre. More can be read about this publication here https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/uncategorised/standing-ground-exhibition-catalogue/I was commissioned by UAL CSM Museum and Study Collection (2021) to produce a new artwork on the museums historic books on botany. My research explores the social history of King’s Cross, specifically the development of the Granary Square area in which Central Saint Martins now sits. This commission was supported by Diversity Matters grant from Museum Development London.
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