Selected critical writing, essays, profiles, and reviews. Reverse chronological.
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.
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'.
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.
A lovely, tender film that uses archive footage to create a portrait of the lives and struggles of those immigrants from the Indian subcontinent who came to the industrial heartland of England in the 60s and 70s.