Press & Critical Writing

Press

Selected critical writing, essays, profiles, and reviews. Reverse chronological.

UAL 20/20 · 2025

Ekow Eshun in Conversation with Billy Dosanjh

Ekow Eshun

It's personal, it's political but it's also planetary. It goes back to the 1960s, but also thinks about deep time and thinks geologically. There's an ambition to that.

New Art Exchange · 2023

Billy Dosanjh and the Quest to Settle (essay)

Hammad Nasar, co-curator of British Art Show 9 and lead curator of Turner Prize 2021

By firmly planting his artistic project in the working class, post-industrial, communities of South Asian heritage in the Black Country, Dosanjh has taken on the task of creating a new form of 'settler art'.

Take on Art (India) · 2024

Take on Art: Dayshift featured

Hammad Nasar

ESPN · 2023

The Athletic's Film Festival

Sid Lowe. Green Lions selected.

New Art Exchange · 2022

Exhibition catalogue text for [Traveller, Your Footprints]

Melanie Kidd

Dosanjh's work occupies a fascinating territory that is informed by Euro-American art theory, but resolutely remains 'from the culture [of the region]', revealing a new language and perspective.

Somerset House · 2019

Kaleidoscope: Q&A with Filmmaker Billy Dosanjh

Somerset House Studios (archived on Google Arts & Culture)

Evening Standard · 2019

Film London Lodestars 2019 winners

The Guardian · 2016

The Sikhs of Smethwick review, making the Black Country a better place

The Guardian · 2014

Britain's most racist election: the story of Smethwick, 50 years on

Stuart Jeffries (context piece, the historical ground of Year Zero)

The Guardian · 2014

Mordor, he wrote: how the Black Country inspired Tolkien's badlands

Black Country Echoes · 2014

Year Zero: Black Country — Black Country Echoes

Commissioned essay for Black Country Echoes: People, Landscape, Industry, Art

Birmingham Live · 2014

Calls for probe as riots film launched

Gazette & Herald

Claudia Lawrence documentary interview

The Asian Today

The ‘Reel’ Lozells Riot

Interviews & Conversations

Space Studios · 2026

Out of SPACE Podcast (Season 2, Ep. 6)

In conversation with Dr Nerina Ramlakhan on art practice and mental health. Also on Apple Podcasts.

New Art Exchange · 2022

Billy Dosanjh in Conversation with Melanie Kidd

Long-form conversation at the [Traveller, Your Footprints] exhibition, 4 November 2022

The New Art Gallery Walsall · 2023

Billy Dosanjh in Conversation with Deborah Robinson

In-conversation and informal tour of The Exiles exhibition, 28 January 2023

The New Art Gallery Walsall · 2022

The Exiles — Exhibition Film

Video documenting the exhibition and the making of the photographic series

FLAMIN / Film London · 2021

Masterclass: An Introduction to Artists Working with Moving Image

FLAMIN & Film London Equal Access Network

Flatpack Film Festival · 2021

Mind the Gaps — Flatpack Film Festival Talk

On navigating archives and drawing out untold stories