Fashion Marketing and Promotion BA Honours student Ketan Mandalia had his work featured at the Late at Tate Britain Online event, which explores the work of young creatives with online workshops, artist talks and music.
The event was broadcast live on 27 August and was split into three streams of talks and showcases, life drawing and music. During the event, the Tate Collective Producers explored what it means for creatives to make art in the current climate and how they are responding, improvising and adapting to the challenges they have faced due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It featured a short film created by Ketan, where he spoke about self-care and creativity and the ways that we can keep a positive attitude and healthy mindset during difficult times such as lockdown. Ketan is an art conceptual photographer, visual artist and educator and is currently studying on the Fashion Marketing and Promotion BA Honours course at the University of Westminster. His work focuses on personal storytelling with key influences from his own life, style and current events happening across the globe.
Ketan also took part in a Q&A interview where he spoke with Tate Associate Creative Researcher Soofiya, who invited him to take part in the event, where he talked about being a young freelancer creative, creative careers, accessing creative opportunities before, during and after university and the progressing digital future of the creative industries.
Talking about taking part in the online event, Ketan Mandalia said: “Working with such a large institute such as the Tate as a coloured working-class individual was especially important to me. South Asian contemporary artists and designers can be few and far between, and I was able to voice my thoughts and opinions on a large platform that I usually never have when sharing my creative work and reach people from all over the world.
“In all my work on the Fashion Marketing and Promotion BA Honours course I always have the same goal in mind, and that is to push myself to make my projects the biggest and best productions they can feasibly be. When you believe that the sky is the limit for your work, people will see that. I'm looking forward to my final year, where I have even bigger productions planned!”
Late at Tate Britain Online will be available to watch on the Tate Britain website until 9 September.
