Dr Karenjit Sandhu

Karenjit Sandhu is an artist and poet with a PhD in prose poetry, archives, performance and art objects from Royal Holloway University of London. Her publications include: the performance poem Baby 19 (intergraphia books); artist's book Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive (Guillemot Press, 2022) and visual poetry collection young girls! (the 87 press, 2021).

Her artworks and poems are anthologised in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021) and Writing Utopia (Hesterglock Press, 2020), in addition to being published in Magma (2020), Digital Poetics (the 87 press, 2020), DATABLEED (2019), Para-text (2019).

She has collaborated with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Barbican, Flat Time House and Camden People’s Theatre (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). She has also written for The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists’ Books. Her own artists’ books have been collected by the Tate Archive and exhibited at The Showroom (London) and Galerie éof (Paris).

She has contributed to research on British artist John Latham in her essays: ‘Painting with Fire and Foam: The Daring Practices of Alberto Burri and John Latham’ for the exhibition catalogue Time {τ} and Eternal Life, and ‘Shifting Perspectives: the space, the work and the body’ for exhibition catalogue Red, Green and Yellow: Tim Head, Bob Law, Liliane Lijn, Wolfgang Tillmans and John Latham.

Sandhu’s previous academic positions include: Poet in Residence and Associate Teaching Fellow at the University of Surrey, Visiting Tutor in English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. @k_ren_sandhu