Neeli Malik
Neeli Malik is the Printmaking Technician at the Ruskin School of Art, based at the Bullingdon Road studios.
Neeli studied BFA Fine Art at the Ruskin from 2016-19, and went on to receive training at London Print Studio and at the Royal College of Art, where she was awarded a Burberry Scholarship to study MA Print. Her work has been exhibited in various galleries internationally, including the Royal Society of Printmaker’s Exhibition at Bankside Gallery. Her work has been selected by the Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking Survey, and she has been featured in Printmaking Today magazine.
“My practise is concerned with the idea that anthropocentric decay is exacerbated by a widespread disconnection between humans and our environments. ‘Human exceptionalism’ or ‘Anthropocentrism’ is a mode of thinking that wrongly categorizes humanity as distinctly separate from nature. I want to propose the term ‘emergency intermergences’ - markers of collusions between humans as well as nonhumans in defiance of said separatism, to consciously or unconsciously un-do the isolation of Anthropocentrism.
To visually explore these concepts, I used both my own photography and found imagery to compose amalgamations to represent symbiotic organisms (using images of lichen, coral, moss, slime moulds, mycelium). The medium of print, traditionally used for the reproduction of images, begins to mirror cellular reproduction, as I trace the evolution of an image from photography, to drawing, to metal plates, to a myriad of vivid printed variations (intaglio, silkscreen, lithography).”
