Saad Qureshi in conversation with Sarah Victoria Turner

Saad Qureshi

Saad Qureshi received his BA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University in 2007 and an MFA in Painting from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2010. He is currently a Trustee of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Recent solo exhibitions include the Djanogly Gallery (at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham University); Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield; and Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi. Group exhibitions include the Aga Khan Centre Gallery, London; I’Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris; Museum Arnhem, Netherlands; Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen; Drawing Room, London; and White Project Gallery, Paris.

Qureshi was a winner of The Frieze & The OWO Sculpture Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2021 SkyArts LANDMARKS public art prize. He has realised public commissions at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford and for LandSec at Victoria, London.

Sarah Victoria Turner

Sarah Turner is Director of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, a research institute and educational charity part of Yale University. Sarah has published widely and co-curated several major exhibitions, and much of her writing has focused on the entangled relationships between Britain, the British Empire and South Asia; most recently culminating in co-leading the London-Asia research project with Hammad Nasar.

Sarah has also co-written and co-hosted the Sculpting Lives podcast with Jo Baring, which focused on British women sculptors. Further information on Sarah’s research and publications can be found here: paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/sarah-victoria-turner.