Chandigarh-based artist Gurjeet Singh (b.1994) creates weird but wonderful soft sculptures inspired by surroundings and conversations with friends and strangers encounter in real life and virtually. The culmination of a process of sketching and working with his materials are three dimensional works made of a myriad of richly coloured and textured fabrics that come together to form witty, other-worldly and sometimes melancholic creatures.

Singh’s first creative inspiration came from family, watching mother and helping elder sisters stitching, embroidering and sewing at home stuck Singh’s attention and gradually grew love for

it. He also remembers being lost in the intricate Sikh miniatures published in newspapers often would brought home in form of cuttings by his father, wall murals and folk traditions of clay doll-making in Punjab has a great influence in Singh’s work. He would often assist his father with his work of scooter repairs, which gave him a deep understanding of machines and how

they work.

He works across mediums including sculpture, painting, drawing, sound and performances. He often collects discarded fabrics, scrap, beads & buttons and left over material usually source

them from his sister stitching business, local markets, vendors, tailors, keen relatives and close ones. He reuses discarded material, leftover fabrics and embroidered borders in his process

and give lives by shaping them into soft sculpture. Singh is deeply drawn to material and things which other call defected and discarded and see no longer in use, but that’s precisely what

interests him and prefers working with, giving it a new language. A recurring theme in his work is identity, equity and equality, and how losses and love shape them, with a particular interest in LGBTQ+ stories and sustainability.