Sundar Kanta Walker
ARTIST AND WRITER
My creative Curriculum Vitae
Name:
Sundar Kanta (Kapila) Walker
Date of Birth: 17th March 1944
Place of Birth: Punjab India
Address:
7 Morecambe Bank
Grange Over Sands
Cumbria LA11 6DX.
Tel: 015395 32224
Email: kantawalker@hotmail.com
Early Education:
Privately tutored at home up to secondary
Level.
Qualifications
from British Universities: Studied
at Nottingham
Manchester and Sheffield Universities gaining B.A. 1966
Diploma in Community Development (with distinction) 1971
Master in Education (by thesis) 1977
Diploma in Art Therapy 1992
Honours and Awards:
SSRC Research Fellowship 1977 - 79
Leverhulme Research Fellowship 80 - 82
North West Arts Board Bursary to paint
at the National College of Arts in Lahore 88.
Churchill Fellowship to Study Arts & Crafts
traditions in the tribal territories of Pakistan in 87.
Posts Held:
Artist and art psychotherapist 2000 -
Tavistock Medical Research Fellow 98 - 2000
Senior Art Therapist Sanjhe Rang Project 96 - 98.
Head Chorlton Park Adult Education College 90 - 95.
Assistant Principal City College Arts Education 87 to
90.
District Co-ordinator Arts & Crafts Education 82 - 87.
Community Development Officer (Arts & Oral History)
Social Services 79 -82.
Community Worker developing arts and crafts with Asian
Communities in the Inner City funded by Christian Aid.
1972 - 76.
Publications:
Sare Mare - Novel Published By Pandora 1989.
Flame, Talkers Through Dream Doors Poetry
anthologies. Relative to Me Short Stories by
Women Writers, The Redbeck Anthology and
The Edge New Cumbrian Writers.
Various articles, short stories and academic papers
in various journals i.e. The Guardian, Spare Rib, The Metropolitan,
Psychotherapy and Art Therapy
journals
Arts Education:
Studied at Golda Rose Studio for three years. G. Rose trained at Slade
and later became an art -
Therapist. (1978 - 81)
Studied Life Drawing at City College, Manchester.
(1990 - 92)
Various courses in textile arts, ceramics, painting and drawing, and
Art History at the Dallam Centre in Cumbria (1998 -
Group Exhibitions:
At Riverside Studios Manchester from 1980
onwards annually until 1986.
Black Arts Alliance: Exhibited at the Greenwich
Citizens Gallery
in 1987 and various Arts venues in and
around Manchester until 1997.
Grange Arts Society: Annual group exhibitions in
Cumbria from 98
onwards.
Individual Exhibitions:
Frankfurt Arts Festival
Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore Pakistan
Shakir Ali Museum Lahore
Channel 6 Exhibition in Hyderabad India concerning the preservation
of Rocks
Sundar Rang August 2003 at the Birla
Millenium Gallery, London
'2D' 'Diverse & Dynamic' 16th January to
18th February at Brixton Art Gallery London
Touring Exhibition: Jag Mag Jugni from 1989 to 1990 for 18
months at Oldham, Blackburn, Tameside,
Glasgow, Skelmersdale and many other
venues.
Arts Collections:
City Art Gallery Manchester
Private collections at Jubilee Hills (India)
Lahore and Islamabad, Germany,
Holland, Southern Italy, Spain, and Syria.
As I am a trained and practicing art therapist many of my art works
have a strong unconscious dimension derived from working in the Jungian
tradtion.
My Writing
Publishing History: Articles
in the Guardian, Spare Rib and the Times Educational Supplement in
the 70's and 80's concerning issues to do with Asian Youth, Pakistan,
Women and Afghanistan.
Sare Mare Novel published by Pandora in 1987.
Relative to Me, Talkers Through Dream Doors, The
Redbeck Anthology of South Asian Poetry, The Metropolitan and The
Edge
Included short stories and poetry contributions from 1996 - 2003.
Veena Indian Arts Review has poems and the serialisation of the sequel
entitled Return to Sare Mare 2004.
I have also written four academic papers concerning art therapy and psychotherapy practice using the mother tongue.
Most of my writing currently is unpublished.
- Sundar Kanta Walker