Symrath Kaur Patti
Born: Kenya, 1961
Education
2021 – 2023 Dartington Art College
1981 – 1984 Fine Arts B.A (HONS), Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds.
1979 – 1981 Art and Design Foundation, East Ham College of Technology, London
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Muse Gallery, London.
1991 The Complete Promise, Centre Space/ Hounslow Library, London, 15 July – 10 August.
Group Exhibitions
2023 – WOMEN IN REVOLT – Tate Britain. Touring Show to Edinburgh, currently in Manchester at the Whitworth
2013 Phantasm: Objective Reality as perceived and distorted by the 5 senses, The Tabernacle, London, 15-20 January 2013
1994 British Display: Said Adrus, Rasheed Araeen, Chila Burman, Mona Hatoum, Symrath Patti and Keith Piper, organised by Symrath Patti. Havana Biennial: Art, Society, Reflection. Director Lilian Lanes, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana.
1993-4 Renegotiations: Class, Modernity, and Photography, curated by John Roberts, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, 29 March – 8 May 1993; touring to Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre, 18 December 1993 – 29 January 1994, and Zone Photographic Gallery 7 April – 15 May 1994.
1993-4 Transition of Riches, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 2 September – 14 November, touring to Southampton City Art Gallery, 17 June – 31 July 1994, and The Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling, 22 October – 27 November 1994.
1992-3 Keepin it together, curated by Chila Kumari Burman and Vi Hendrickson, The Pavilion, Leeds.
1991 Havana Biennial: The challenge to colonization. Director Lilian Lanes, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana.
1989 One Spirit: Black Artists against Racism, 198 Gallery, Brixton, London.
1988 Panchayat, Soho Poly Theatre, London
1986 Jagrati: An Exhibition of Work By Asian Women Artists, Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London, 14 October – 22 November 1986.
1985 Creation for Liberation, St. Matthew’s Meeting Place, Brixton, London
Residencies
1990-1 Artist in Residence, Cranford Community School, London, August 1990- March 1991
1990 Artist in Residence, Willesden Green Library, London, February.
Employment:
1984-1986 Asian Women’s Arts Development Officer, Greenwich Asian Women’s Group, London.
1986-1990 Assistant Manager, Dominion Centre for Community Programmes, Southall, London.
Bibliography:
2014 Eddie Chambers, Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s, London: IB Tauris, p.91,103.
2001 Symrath Patti, “Interactive Moving Images”, in Amal Ghosh and Juginder Lamba, Beyond Frontiers: Contemporary British Art by Artists of South Asian Descent, London: Saffron Press, pp. 218-221
2001 Sonali Fernando, “Hair of the Dog?”, in Amal Ghosh and Juginder Lamba, Beyond Frontiers: Contemporary British Art by Artists of South Asian Descent, London: Saffron Press, pp.108-125.
1994 Sonali Fernando, “Symrath Patti”, Quinta Bienal de la Habana, exhibition catalogue, Havana: Wifredo Lam Centre, 1994, p.98.
1993 Julian Stallabrass, “Renegotiations: Class, Modernity, and Photography”, Art Monthly, No. 116, May 1993, pp.21-22
1993 John Roberts (ed.), Renegotiations: Class, Modernity, and Photography, exhibition catalogue, Norwich: Norwich Gallery, 1993pp.36-37.
1993 Aubrey Chalmers, “Raising a Stink at the Gallery, Daily Mail, 27 September 1993, p.5
1993 Anon., “£20,000 mango art display ‘a load of old rot’, Today, 27 September 1993, p.15
1993 Anon., “Sorry, Old Fruit”, Daily Sport, 27 September 1993, p.?
1993 Anon., “Our View: Fruit ‘n Nut Cases”, Daily Sport, 27 September 1993, p.?
1993 Keith Harrison, “What Rot”, Sunday Mercury, 26 September 1993, p.1
1993 Tania Guha, “Transition of Riches”, Third Text, 7:25, 1993, pp.81-86.
1993 Sonali Fernando and Cary Sawhney (eds.), Transition of Riches, exhibition catalogue, Birmingham: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, pp.26-29
1992 Symrath Patti, “The Complete Promise”, Third Text, no. 19, Summer 1992, pp.19-24
1992 Chila Kumari Burman and Vi Hendrickson (eds.), Keepin it Together, Leeds: The Pavilion, unpaginated.
1991 Jean Fisher, The Complete Promise, unpublished essay, 16 July 1991, available in The Panchayat Special Collection, Tate Library, London.
1989 Preethi Manuel, “One Spirit: Black Artists against Racism”, Bazaar South Asian Arts Magazine, issue 8, 1989, p.17.
1989 One Spirit: Black Artists against Racism, exhibition pamphlet, London: 198 Gallery.
1986 Anon., “Murder Tribute Sparks Art”, The Mercury, 13 November 1986, p.38.
1986 Fay Rodrigues, Jagrati: An Exhibition of Work By Asian Women Artists, Greenwich: Greenwich Citizens Gallery, unpublished manuscript, available in The Women’s Art Library Archive, London, and The Panchayat Special Collection, Tate Library, London. Also available online: Jagrati––An Exhibition of Work by Asian Women Artists, Greenwich Citizens Gallery, Woolwich, available at Internet Archive