ANSHU SINGH

ANSHU SINGH
(b. India)

Anshu Singh’s textile-based practice engages memory, labour, and community through processes rooted in weaving and material reconstruction. Drawing from the textile traditions of Banaras, particularly the hand-worked carpet weaving practices of Mirzapur and Bhadohi, her works function as repositories of lived experience shaped through repetition, touch, and manual skill. Textile in her practice is approached not only as material but as a social and cultural structure, carrying histories of labour, inheritance, and collective knowledge.

Working with recovered and everyday materials including jute sacks, used sari thread, and recycled factory waste, Singh constructs surfaces that register repair, endurance, and transformation. Her compositions retain the physical traces of handling and use, allowing material wear and irregularity to remain visible. Through acts of stitching, weaving, and accumulation, discarded fragments are reconstituted into tactile fields that hold together vulnerability and resilience. The work emerges from an attention to process and the intelligence of making, where the gesture of the hand becomes central to how memory and labour are embedded within form.

Singh trained in weaving and design, and her engagement with textile practices is informed by early exposure to weaving communities through her mother’s boutique in Banaras.

Singh lives and works in India.