Tanvi Kant is an interdisciplinary artist based in East Sussex, UK. Her work draws from elemental methods of making through embodied movement, reflecting on the cyclical energies of movement through line. She makes tactile sculpture, installations, textile jewellery, collage and assemblage that explore themes of flexibility and the multiple possibilities of form.
Interested in the interrelationships between process and action on the intrinsic qualities of materials, she transforms materials through repetitive hand movements and with minimal tools. Her works revere the generative and destructive processes of reworking, unpicking and remaking.
By reflecting on the impact of actions on materials, physical acts of making are infused with sensory responses such as knottiness, entanglement, density, and lightness. Complex forms are created from simple elements created through processes such as wrapping, coiling, knotting, layering and hand-stitching.
Recollections of experiences from her British-Gujarati heritage draw upon personal memories of rituals, adornment, food-making and language. They resurface as signifiers of cultural and bodily memory synthesising the personal and the universal.
Since graduating in 2005 she has won numerous awards and exhibited internationally. She has extensive experience as a visiting tutor in adult education and further education to postgraduate degree level. She regularly works with the public, families and community groups encouraging participants to respond to their visual and tactile senses through materials and to support intergenerational learning experiences.