SUP_Gujurat
SUP is proud to partner with Sarvajanik University as the hosting university to deliver the international artist residency programme.
SUP_Gujurat
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A paid International Artist Residency Opportunity for UK based Artists. This residency opportunity is in collaboration with our hosting university partner Sarvajanik University in Surat, Gujarat, India.
The resident artist will receive round-trip flights and monthly artist fees will be provided. The artists are expected to work with the university students to conduct projects, deliver workshops and talks during the residency.
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studio practice
Produce a new body of solo and collaborative work
artist led workshops
To design and implement workshops with students
community outreach
Curate a final show of work for a community arts festival
final show
Final show to tour to a London gallery and Salford University.
SUP_Gujurat 2025 resident artists
Tarla Patel
Tarla Patel is a multidisciplinary artist from Coventry, exploring identity, memory and space through migration and storytelling, championing hidden voices. She has worked on international and UK projects with artists, organisations, and communities.
Tarla is the proud custodian of her father Maganbhai Patel (Masterji) photography archive provides a visual documented of people migrating from the Indian subcontinent and settling in the UK from 1950s to 2000. Her direction of work primarily run through the ideas of memory, space, and identity; through stories of migration and how it connects through generations, and shapes our sense of belonging in the world we live in.
Instagram: @t_a_r_l_
Nicola Hills
Nicola Hills has extensive experience working as a Garden and Landscape Designer. She qualified as a Garden Designer at Merrist Wood and has worked on a number of contemporary gardens, as well as show gardens. Nicola likes to blend traditional planting schemes in a contemporary manner and believes landscape design is about making connections between personal space and the surrounding landscape. She has experience designing in the public realm as well as formal and informal gardens for both private and commercial clients.
Instagram: @nicolahillsstudio
about our hosting university in Gujarat
Sarvajanik University
The Sarvajanik Education Society has established Sarvajanik University was established by The Sarvajanik Education Society on 1st June, 2021, under the Gujarat Private Universities Act No. 8 of 2009 and Amendment Gujarat Private Universities Act No. 15 of 2021.
‘Integrated, Inclusive & Innovative’ are the core values on which the Sarvajanik University believes to walk forward. To guide, educate, mentor the youth of the nation, under one umbrella is the key objective of the University. Under its aegis there are eight constituent institutes imparting education in domains of Arts, Business, Commerce, Architecture and Design, Engineering, Law, Management, Science and Humanities.
The Gujarati word ‘Sarvajanik’ translates as Universal, Public and inherent in it, is the notion of “Inclusiveness”. This essence is carried forward as the integration of various institutes of excellence, which existed as separate bodies in the Sarvajanik Education Society.
Sarvajanik School of Fine Arts
