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Bhajan Hunjan has made continuous prints in respond to ideas of homeland, nation and cultural identity.
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Bhajan has made continuous prints in respond to ideas of homeland, nation and cultural identity. She was born in Kenya in 1956. In 1975 she came to England to study Fine Art at Reading University followed by a post-graduate course in printmaking at the Slade; she has lived there ever since. In 1989 she visited close relatives in the Indian Punjab for the first time. Bhajan is a painter and a printmaker. Central to Bhajan Hunan's work is the representation of herself: as a woman; as a Black woman. She always states her presence within the work usually with figurative images of herself. Her early work is figurative; it includes herself and others, portraits and self-portraits. She is present centre-space, in double-representation or standing on the sidelines; present not as an object of the work, not as a thing seen, but as the seer. Her self-image is both a likeness...
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