b. 1965, United Kingdom
English sculptor, born 1965
Permindar Kaur’s artistic practice extends over more than three decades during which time she has become one of Britain’s most innovative artists. Known as much for her deft manipulation of materials including glass, metal, and fabric, as for her evocative exploration of home, childhood, memory, and cultural identity, her practice defies easy categorisation. With its fastidious regard for scale and form, her work is both alluring and contemplative. As art historian Richard Hylton notes, “Kaur’s work is both alluring and contemplative.”
Her outdoor installation Overgrown House (2020) was included in Compton Verney’s major Sculpture in the Park project for 2024 alongside works by Louise Bourgeois and Helen Chadwick. Major solo exhibitions include Nothing is Fixed (John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2024), Outgrown (The ArtHouse, Wakefield, 2022), Home (5 Howick Place, London, 2020–21), Interlopers (University of Hertfordshire, 2016), Hiding Out (Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, 2014), and Cold Comfort (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham & Mead Gallery, Coventry, 1996).
Her work has been included in major group exhibitions such as Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 (Arts Council Collection, 2021–2023), If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960–2022 (The Hepworth Wakefield and Saatchi Gallery, 2023), and At Home with Art (Tate & Hayward Touring, 2000), which featured her work Shower Curtain.
Kaur completed her MA at the Glasgow School of Art and lives and works in the UK.