Purnima Chavda

Purnima Chavda works across printmaking, drawing and textiles, often drawing on family photographs, personal history and the saree as a motif.

Influenced by her travels and cultural experiences, she creates work shaped by memory, environment and connection across generations.

She utilises drawing, collage, printmaking, and textiles in her socially engaged practice and centres co-production, agency and inclusion in her approach. Jemma’s own creative practice explores themes of connection and belonging which can appear as landscapes and she also writes short stories based on autobiography and overheard conversations and she also makes Zines. 

Selected Works

Saree hanging sculpture & saree plaits, 2026

Exhibited in Our Very Fabric

“Through our journey, we come back and leave memories and guidance from above. We keep within us the threads that bind us together, and ancestral connections are carried through generations gone by and still to come.

These saree sculptures are made from inherited family sarees passed down through generations, alongside the artist’s own sarees from significant moments in her life.”