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Visualising a Fair Future with The Fearless Collective

Visualising a Fair Future with The Fearless Collective

FromThe Art Persists Podcast


Visualising a Fair Future with The Fearless Collective

FromThe Art Persists Podcast

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Apr 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, we speak to Shilo Shiv Suleman, artist and founder of The Fearless Collective. Shilo describes finding her voice as a artist starting at the age of just 13, founding The Fearless Collective - working with communities across the world to create resistance through creativity, and how through the collective she visualises a fairer future.Thank you to Shilo for joining us for this episode. If you are enjoying The Art Persists Podcast, please FOLLOW, RATE, and SHARE. Only with your help can these stories be heard.Shilo Shiv Suleman is an award-winning Indian artist whose work lives and breathes at the intersection of Magical Realism, Art, Nature, Culture, Technology, and Social Justice. She began her career at 16 as a children’s book illustrator and had 10 published books by the time she was 20. As an INK fellow, her work became known when her talk made it to TED.com, and got just under a million views in 2012.She is the founder and director of the Fearless Collective- a growing movement of hundreds of artists replacing fear with love in public spaces and the frontlines of resistance movements.She has worked with communities across the world in 16 different countries by facilitating and leading public art interventions and has painted over 40 murals with indigenous communities in Brazil, refugee and migrant communities in Beirut, queer activists in South Africa and transgender activists in Pakistan and more.
Released:
Apr 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (33)

The Art Persists Podcast is a new series offering a glimpse into the life of artists and activists bridging the arts, activism, and human rights around the world. Brought to you by Bosla Arts. Each episode will feature interviews with artists who share their first-hand experience of using art to stand up to some of the world's most feared dictators and regimes, and individuals working day and night to support and protect them.