Press
Critical Writing
Ekow Eshun in Conversation with Billy Dosanjh — UAL 20/20
In-depth conversation exploring workplace hierarchies, empire, and settler art. Published as part of the Decolonising Arts Institute 20/20 programme.
Billy Dosanjh and the Quest to Settle — Hammad Nasar
Critical essay commissioned by the New Art Exchange, Nottingham. Written by Hammad Nasar, co-curator of British Art Show 9 and lead curator of Turner Prize 2021. (Download PDF)
Year Zero: Black Country — Black Country Echoes
Commissioned essay for the Black Country Echoes festival publication, Black Country Echoes: People, Landscape, Industry, Art.
Press
Take on Art — India's foremost Arts magazine
Dayshift featured. Article by Hammad Nasar, March 2024.
ESPN — Athletic's Film Festival
Green Lions featured in Athletic's film festival.
Somerset House — Kaleidoscope Q&A
Q&A with Filmmaker Billy Dosanjh.
Evening Standard — Film London Lodestars
Film London's Lodestars winners.
The Guardian — Sikhs of Smethwick review
"Making the Black Country a better place."
The Guardian — Tolkien's Black Country
"Mordor, he wrote: how the Black Country inspired Tolkien's badlands."
The Guardian — Britain's most racist election
Stuart Jeffries on Smethwick, 50 years on. References Billy Dosanjh's film Year Zero: Black Country.
Birmingham Live
"Calls for probe as riots film launched."
Gazette & Herald
Claudia Lawrence documentary interview.
The Asian Today
"The 'Reel' Lozells Riot" — Interview.
Interviews & Conversations
Out of SPACE Podcast — Space Studios (Season 2, Ep. 6)
Billy Dosanjh in conversation with physiologist and sleep expert Dr Nerina Ramlakhan on art practice and mental health. Available on Apple Podcasts and Buzzsprout.
Billy Dosanjh in Conversation with Melanie Kidd — New Art Exchange, Nottingham
Long-form conversation with curator and Head of Programmes Melanie Kidd, exploring the development of Dosanjh's practice, his influences, and the three key exhibits: Year Zero: Black Country, The Exiles, and Indi. Recorded live at the [Traveller, Your Footprints] exhibition, 4 November 2022.
Billy Dosanjh in Conversation with Deborah Robinson — The New Art Gallery Walsall
In-conversation with Head of Exhibitions Deborah Robinson, featuring an informal tour of The Exiles exhibition followed by a screening. 28 January 2023.
The Exiles — Exhibition Film
Video documenting The Exiles exhibition and the making of the photographic series across the Black Country.