Tanvi Kant is an interdisciplinary artist who repurposes textiles through elemental hand-construction techniques by unpicking, wrapping, coiling, knotting, and stitching sculptural textile forms. She makes jewellery, sculpture, tactile participatory installations and collage.
Embodied movements are explored through sensory stimulation of tactility and colour when working directly with materials with minimal tools. The visual play of organic structural forms created are sensitive to spiritual, folk and cultural heritage.
Recollections of experiences from her British-Gujarati upbringing draw on personal memories of rituals, adornment, food-making and language. They resurface as signifiers of cultural and bodily memory synthesising the personal and the universal.
Tanvi has extensive experience as a tutor in adult education to postgraduate degree level. She regularly works with the public and community groups encouraging participants to respond to their visual and tactile senses through materials and to support intergenerational learning experiences.
Tanvi is based on the South East coast, UK and graduated in 2005. She has won numerous awards and exhibited internationally. Her work is part of the public collection at Touchstones Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire UK.