About

Shandana is a multidisciplinary artist and sculptor whose research-led practice explores the human body through the intersection of heritage craft, science, and technology. Moving between wearable and non-wearable sculpture, she uses the body as a site of enquiry, to investigate identity, transformation, lived experience, and the relationships between body, object and surrounding space.

Her practice brings centuries-old craft knowledge and traditional hand skills into dialogue with contemporary materials, scientific ideas, and emerging technologies. With a foundation in millinery and heritage crafts like straw work , her work has incorporated biomaterials, digital fabrication, kinetic mechanisms, sensors, and responsive materials. She is particularly interested in how endangered traditional knowledge can be given contemporary relevance rather than preserved as something static.

Before becoming an artist, Shandana was an academic researcher. Her PhD and research background continue to underpin her creative practice, enabling her to make connections across disciplines and situate her work within wider cultural, intellectual, and sociopolitical contexts.

Shandana’s work has been exhibited in the UK, France, Australia and China and featured in specialist publications and magazines. Three of her sculptural headwear works have been selected for the forthcoming book 101 Hats: The Best in Modern Millinery and its accompanying museum exhibition in China.