For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Karanjit Panesar an artist and filmmaker living and working in Leeds.

Karanjit Panesar’s practice is ambitious, broad and layered. His starting point is filmmaking and from these films he often builds installations, with sculpture, drawing and writing spilling into and out of the moving image space.

He is interested in connecting personal experience to vast structures like global capitalism, media saturation and post-colonialism. Language and the voice are recurring devices in his films, which often operate at the edge of fiction and reality.

Recent solo presentations include: Clarence Pier (2022), Aspex Portsmouth; Parts of Wholes (2022), Workplace Foundation, Newcastle; Actor, Container (2021), Two Queens, Leicester; Strange Loop (2019), Turf Projects, Croydon; and THE WAY THINGS ARE (2018), arebyte Gallery, London.

Inspired by the collections of the British Library and Leeds Art Gallery, Karanjit Panesar’s current exhibition – Furnace Fruit – is a mixed media exhibition centred around new moving image work. The exhibition runs to 15 June 2025 at Leeds Art Gallery.

About the Visiting Artists’ Talks series

The Visiting Artist’s Talk (VAT) series hosts talks by an exciting range of arts practitioners from around the world every Monday afternoon 2–4pm during teaching weeks.

All of our talks are compulsory for our Fine Art students but are also open to anyone else who would like to join us.

Full details about this week's talk including venue information.