SABRINA TIRVENGADUM

Sabrina Tirvengadum (b. 1984) is a deaf British-Mauritian visual artist and graphic designer based in London. Working across photography, collage, digital painting, film and AI, she reworks family and colonial archives to retell her ancestors’ stories.

A large family gathers behind a table laid with a birthday cake, candles and plates of food. A painted backdrop with a pink balloon stands behind them on a clifftop above a dark blue sea, under a pink sunset sky framed by palm trees. A young girl resembling the artist sits in a pink dress in front of the table.

Selected Work

A young girl in a white and pink frilled dress stands in the back garden of a terraced house, looking straight ahead. Beside her is a pink bicycle with stabilisers, and a doll lies on a mat in the grass. Washing hangs on a line, a ginger cat walks along the shed roof and birds fly overhead.

Waiting for Me (2026)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
45 x 45 cm

Our Living Room (2026)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
45 x 45 cm

A family relaxes in a 1980s-style living room. Two young women read newspapers on a striped sofa beneath pink curtains, with a toddler between them. A girl holding a teddy bear sits at the end of the sofa, beside an old television set.
A boy stands in a field of tall sugar cane under a pale, cloudy sky.

Sugar Cane (2023)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
45 x 45 cm

Souvenir (2025)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
70 x 70 cm

Three young children in smart clothes pose in a photographer's studio, in front of a painted tropical landscape. A potted plant and a table of flowers stand either side of them.
This is a young adult posing and holding a teddy bear in a living room.

Pose for our family (2025)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
45 x 45 cm

Family (2023)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
50 x 50 cm In collaboration with Mark Allred.

A Mauritian family of six poses outside a pink house with a teal door. A mother and three children in their best clothes stand beside two men in suits, surrounded by painted palm trees and tropical plants.
A man in a charcoal suit and a woman in a coral-pink dress stand on a boat by the shore, with a city on the horizon behind them.

Indian Ocean (2023)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
70 x 70 cm

Three Sisters (2023)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
35 x 35 cm, In collaboration with Mark Allred

Three young Mauritian women stand side by side in a tiled courtyard, in front of a mural of palm trees and a modernist building with balconies. Two wear white blouses and floral skirts; the woman in the middle wears a red patterned dress. The image has the rounded corners of an old photographic print.
Three Mauritian people in formal wear stand in a pastel-coloured modernist setting, with tropical greenery beyond.

A Posh Summer (2023)
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
80 x 80 cm, In collaboration with Mark Allred.

Studio Foto, 2025
Archival images, collage, digital painting and generative AI
35 x 35 cm

A young child sitting on a wicker chair in an ambiguous photo studio that also looks like an outdoor space.

Films and talks

Watch the film A souvenir to keep, Attenborough Art Centre

FILM: A souvenir to keep, Attenborough Art Centre

TALK: TIDES (Intertidal) Migration Festival, Royal Museums Greenwich

Watch the talk at TIDES (Intertidal) Migration Festival, Royal Museums Greenwich
Watch the talk on Beauty Fall, SPACE Gallery, Ilford

Talk: Beauty Fall, SPACE Gallery, Ilford, London

Collaboration, Press and Awards

Autograph
Barbican
Victoria and Albert Museum
Bridgeman Images
DSQ
Inivia Institute of International Visual Arts
Saag
Visible
British Journal of Photography
Frieze
Foam Magazine
FT How To Spend It
The Guardian
London Design Festival
Fotomuseum Winterthur
The Art Exchange
SPACE
DASH
The Photographers' Gallery
Light Work
Open Eye Gallery
British Council
Jhaveri Contemporary
Paul Mellon Centre
Capture Photography Festival

Photography Work

Portrait of Aka Sil, from the Lafami series.
Portrait of Ane Nan, from the Lafami series.
Portrait of Teerence, from the Lafami series.

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