Ashokkumar Mistry

Every Artwork I have created has started with some form of writing – usually a poem. The writing locates the intention of my work and plays like a mantra in my mind. My neurology and creative approach generates a myriad of creative outputs in a range of media that perhaps appear disconnected. My work is interdisciplinary – primarily visual and sculptural works using many media, writing as a critical tool, and performance as a convergence and an enacting of the many processes of my work.
In the same way as a scientist would use different processes or tools to find evidence of particular physical properties, I use a range of media and processes to unearth different emotional properties. However, the media used in any given piece needs to be fit for purpose. I experiment with media in unconventional ways by pushing them to their limits or mixing them with other media to evoke new emotional realities. I am constantly experimenting and prefer to allow the idea (formed through a poem) to lead, rather than forcing a particular medium onto the idea.
My practice is always evolving and moving into new directions because, for me, the medium is a vehicle to somewhere. My method involves using a variety of mediums in ways that explode their tr...

BA Hons Fine Art, 1996, Leicester

2024. Las Gemelas – Arrival (a lexicon of unmaking)
2023. Don’t Stare – Solo exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2021. Sketchbook collaborator with artist Tanya Rabe Weber
2022. Beyond Relentless Acceleration- Nottingham Contemporary and DASH Arts.
2020. Awkward Bastards at Home– Film Commission by DASH
2018. Half Life. Solo exhibition at AGlow Space, Tainan, Taiwan. Part of 2018 Next art Tainan
2018. Collective Influence. Group show. Shape Arts Open 2018. London
2018. Interfaces. Group show. Bolton
2018. Blockchain: Remote collaboration/online residency with artist exploring dissent. CAS Arts, Andover
2016. The Creative Continuum. Joint exhibition Commission with Kevin Ryan for National Chung Kung University Art Centre, Tainan, Taiwan
2016. Visual collaborator for the performance titled Sound Moves By Jessica Murray
2016. Methods for misunderstanding the nature of things. Performance shown at Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester
2015. Surface Tension. Site specific installation at Curve, Leicester commissioned by Inspirate.
2014. ‘The Standard Model’ Exhibition of generative drawing, Exchange Bar, Leicester
2014. ‘The birth of understanding’. Live art/workshop as part of An Indian Summer, Leicester
2012. ‘Virtulight’ Augmented Re...