This painting is from an ongoing body of work focusing on Indian indentureship across former European colonies. Each painting from the series is based on colonial documentary photographs taken during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I am of Indo-Caribbean heritage, and my ancestors were Indentured Indians who were sent to the Caribbean. Indentureship was a system endorsed by the British Empire to continue work on its plantations across its colonies post the Abolition of Slavery. Little is still known about this chapter of the British Empire; this series of work aims to raise awareness and question the legacy and ramifications of Indian Indentureship and those directly affected by it.

I am British of Indo-Caribbean heritage. My work is primarily focused on my heritage, migration, and the Indo-Caribbean diaspora and its colonial legacy of indentureship across former European colonies. I work from personal and archival material and create visual renderings from my research in the form of paintings and drawings.