Biography
Gurminder Sikand (b. Jamshedpur, India 1960 - d. Nottingham, UK 2021) took a foundation course at Cardiff College of Art and Design (1979-80) and then a fine art degree at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University) (1980-83). She was East Midlands art prize winner in Festival of Fools (1984) and in the same year she co-founded the Nottingham Indian Artists’ Group with Said Adrus and Sardul Gill which held an exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute in London (1985). Sikand was included and on the front cover of Eddie Chambers's catalogue Black Art: Plotting the Course (1988). She had solo exhibitions in a number of English cities, notably at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham and at the Trace Gallery, Nottingham (2023); The Weaver of Songs, TG Gallery, Nottingham (2021); New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2012); Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London (1996); Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall (1995); and Huddersfield Museum and Art Gallery, Huddersfield (1994). Group exhibitions include Tate Britain, London and Barbican, London (both 2023); Quarrylab, Nottingham (2018); The Air Gallery, London (2000); Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry (1999); Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1991); Castle Museum, Nottingham (1990); and Commonwealth Institute, London (1985).