Boomerang: Exhibition Walk-Through

Jasleen Kaur (b.1986 Pollokshields, Glasgow) lives and works in London, UK. She is the winner of the 2024 Turner Prize and in 2025, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by The Glasgow School of Art. Solo exhibitions include Boomerang, Hollybush Gardens, London; Was. Is. Will be., a permanent artwork for Thamesmead, London (2025); Alter Altar, Tramway, Glasgow (2023); Flesh ‘n’ Blood, Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2021); Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, Touchstones Rochdale (2021) and Be Like Teflon, Glasgow Women’s Library (2019). In 2019 her book Be Like Teflon was co-published by Glasgow Women’s Library and Dent-De-Leone.

Selected group exhibitions include The Three Legged Cat, 18th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; PUSH THE LIMITS 2, Merz Foundation, Turin; Maybe we could both belong, Den Frie, Copenhagen; Lives Less Ordinary, Two Temple Place, London (2025); Imagining Otherwise, Primary, Nottingham; CLASSifications, Aspex, Portsmouth (2024); Not new, otherwise, Build Hollywood, Glasgow; A Tall Order!, Touchstones, Rochdale (2023); My Body is a Temple of Gloom, Wellcome Collection, London (2021).

Amanprit Sandhu is a curator, writer and Senior Lecturer on the Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Arts, UK.

Her current research centres on ‘material vernaculars’, a term she has coined to describe the culturally embedded everyday language of materials. Drawing on and extending debates within new materialism, she uses this lens to consider how materials possess their own forms of agency – holding, transmitting and reshaping cultural knowledge.

Recent curatorial projects include Background Music (2024), the first UK solo exhibition of Diné (Navajo) composer, performer and artist Raven Chacon, centring on his graphic scores presented at Chelsea Space, London; and the 2021 co-curated Borås Art Biennial, Deep Listening for Longing, in Borås, Sweden.

In 2019, she contributed to Jasleen Kaur’s book Be Like Teflon with the parallel text ‘The Feeder and Feeding’.

A newly commissioned text 'Major and Minor Notes', written by Sandhu in response to the exhibition will be published in Hollybush Issue 21 (forthcoming).