Runjeet Singh Gallery is delighted to announce their debut exhibition at the third edition of Art Mumbai, spotlighting four UK-based contemporary artists from the Indian diaspora.
Booth C82
Mahalaxmi Racecourse, Mumbai
13 - 16 November 2025
For the first time, Runjeet Singh Gallery will exhibit at Art Mumbai, showcasing a carefully considered selection of contemporary works by four UK-based artists who share roots in Indian culture. The debut exhibition, Artists from the Indian Diaspora, will present paintings and sculptural objects that engage with questions surrounding identity and belonging from the perspective of diasporic narratives. The exhibited works tell complex stories of the personal journeys, ancestral legacies, and enduring memories of colonialism and migration that shape the experience and expression of diasporic artists in the present day.
Runjeet Singh Gallery is a contemporary art gallery and antiques dealership based in Leamington Spa, England. With over a decade of experience dealing in art and antiques at the highest level, Runjeet Singh has built a carefully curated collection of contemporary art from Indian diasporic artists. Runjeet’s mission is to platform artists whose work serves as a bridge - spotlighting the interconnecting elements and liminal spaces between the traditional and the contemporary, the diaspora and the homeland, the east and the west. His selected works explore this ever-evolving symbiosis, and embody the paradox of feeling at home everywhere, yet nowhere at all.
Artists from the Indian Diaspora brings together a group of emerging and established artists whose works adapt and expand traditional Indian styles, techniques, and narratives through a focus on memory and cultural fusion. This is Runjeet Singh Gallery’s first focused exhibition of contemporary art.
Suminder Virk’s paintings draw inspiration from the sharp angles, clean lines, and repetitive geometry of Brutalist and Modernist architecture. Inspired by her native Chandigarh, an Indian city designed by Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier, Virk’s brightly coloured works embody a fusion of Indian and European influences. Her rendering of brutalist forms is heightened by her distinctive technique of meticulously applied oil paint lines, inspired by traditional methods of henna tattooing. Through her incorporation of these varied influences, Virk’s practice unites artistic heritage, formal tradition, and cross-cultural exchange.
Arjun Singh Assa is a multidisciplinary designer, maker, and artist whose practice honours traditional woodcraft while embracing modern innovation and prioritising the responsibility of materials. A standout work is Poorman’s Pony. Inspired by terrazzo benches and flooring observed by Assa at of his local Gurdwara (Sikh temple) during his childhood in Mombasa, this work contains fragments of glass alcohol bottles in a reference to Britain’s controversial drinking culture, presenting a fusion of seemingly incongruous cultural symbols that echoes the paradox of disharmony and belonging present across the exhibition.
Rati Devi Sivyer’s work is rooted in the traditional techniques and materials of Indian miniature painting. Raised in England within the Vaishnava tradition, her practice seeks connection between personal and universal experience. Sivyer’s works explore a balance between the contained, the container, and the potential of space beyond, a theme echoed throughout her work in her use of bird, egg, and nest motifs. Her intentional process of creation has developed into a distinct visual language, telling stories of cyclical temporalities.
Simran Kaur Panesar’s work blends the ancient tradition of miniature painting with modern narratives. Through delicate, layered imagery, she explores narratives shaped by memory, migration, nature, and faith, while positioning herself as a Sikh artist working within a contemporary framework. Panesar’s work embodies a measured and devotional process of creation, from the preparation of materials to the slow, meditative movements of painting. Through her practice, Panesar merges timelines to create works that resonate across generations - deeply rooted in the past yet profoundly relevant in the present.
Runjeet Singh Gallery will be exhibiting works by Arjun Singh Assa, Simran Kaur Panesar, Rati Devi Sivyer, and Suminder Virk at Art Mumbai, Booth C82, from 13 to 16 November 2025.
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