Hetal Chudasama

I am a multidisciplinary artist, born in India and now based in Scotland, working across printmaking, painting, installation, performance, and moving image. My practice weaves
together tactile processes and conceptual enquiry, often producing immersive environments that invite audiences to reflect, pause, and engage in dialogue.
Over the years, my work has responded to questions of resilience, displacement, memory, and ecology. I am drawn to materials and processes that carry traces of history, whether through drawing, painting, carving, stitching, layering, or evoking sensorial elements through
sound and surfaces. I use them to explore how making and unmaking echo both collective and personal narratives. Language also plays a central role in my practice, not only as
communication but as a visual and spatial force, where text becomes ritual, resistance, and remembrance.
My entry into printmaking was, in many ways, accidental. At a moment of artistic block, I began working with discarded fragments of household furniture, many inherited, bearing the touch of generations. Initially, I printed directly from these surfaces without altering their original form. The process revealed new ways of uncovering stories embedded in material, and gradually opened up a deeper engagement with woodcut printmaking. Today, printmaking matters to me because it allows the past life of an object to meet the immediacy of markmaking, turning surfaces into vessels of memory and transformation.
Alongside my studio practice, I create collaborative projects with communities and serve as Creative Lead at Cample Line Art Gallery, as well as a board member of Upland Arts. Across all areas of my work, I aim to bridge the material and the spiritual, the individual and the collective, offering spaces of resilience, contemplation, and shared experience.