என்னைப் பற்றி About

An portrait of Sabrina Tirvengadum


As a deaf British Mauritian artist, I explore identity, memory and family history. I’m interested in the stories we carry, the ones we lose, and how we try to understand them in the present. My own family’s journey includes migration and the indentured labour system, and I look at how those histories continue to shape our lives.

I use photography, family archives, digital painting and AI tools to create my work. These help me imagine the parts of the past that were never recorded or have faded over time. I think of memory not just as something we recall, but something we build and reshape.

My practice invites people to consider how personal stories are shaped by migration, displacement and power. I often begin with a story, a photograph, or a small memory and let that guide the work.

Making art helps me connect with the parts of my story that were hidden, forgotten or never fully known. I hope it encourages others to see identity as something layered, shifting and deeply personal, just like memory itself.

Events / Funded projects

2025: Make it happen 2025, Waltham Forest

2024: AI Workshops, Idea Space, Make it happen Fund 2024, Waltham Forest

2023 – 2024: Leytonstone Loves Film Community Fund, Short Film: Nostalgic Leytonstone, Barbican

2023: Judge for R&D Photo Competition, WGSN

2023: Judge for Redbridge Design Challenge 2023, Creative People and Places funded by Arts Council

2023: Workshop for Redbridge Design Challenge 2023, Creative People and Places funded by Arts Council

2023: Wiilma Ambassador (not-for-profit arts organisation)

2022: London Creative Network (LCN) at SPACE Studios

Exhibitions and Residencies

2025: I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies, Autograph, London

2025: 2025 Light Work Artists-in-Residence (AIRs), Syracuse, New York State

2025: Who Were They? Who Am I?, Attenborough arts centre, Leicester

2024: Interwoven, BLOC Gallery, Queen Mary University of London

2023 – 2024: Afternoon Chai, Billboard, SPACE Gallery, Ilford, London

2023: Future Focus: New Terrain @ Parallel London, Devonshire Square

2023: If we were Marrier d’Unienville, Runner up, Visible Artist Award, House of St Barnabas and Audible Head office

2023: Lafami (Mauritius), NAE OPEN 2023, New Art Exchange

2023: If we were Marrier d’Unienville, Becoming Monumental, Autograph, Becoming Monumental at Old Street, outdoor display, As part of Autograph’s exhibition, YOU NAME IT  by Sasha Huber

2023: If we were Marrier d’Unienville, Becoming Monumental, Autograph, Online Exhibition As part of Autograph’s exhibition, YOU NAME IT  by Sasha Huber

2023: My Fiancé – After he proposed, Small File Photo Festival, Photography Unthinking, Online Exhibition

2023: My Fiancé – After he proposed, Shortlisted, Small File Photo Festival, The Photographers’ Gallery

2023:  If we were Marrier d’Unienville, New Year Exhibition, The Print House Gallery

2021: HomeMade Film screening with Leytonstone Loves Film + Barbican

2021, RyeHereRyeNow Poster Exhibition with London Design Festival

2021 Wiilma’s ‘Create and Connect Safely from Home’ Exhibition supported by Barbican’s Leytonstone Loves Film Festival

2020: #HomeIs Online screening, Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019 and Barbican

2009, exhibited photography project “Behind closed eyes” at the Leytonstone Art Trail, London

2007, Photography exhibition “Behind closed eyes”, Free Range, The Truman Brewery, London

2006, Touch Exhibition “Dead Celebrities”, Polish Cultural Institute, London

2006, Photography exhibition “Focus on Guangzhou” Guangdong Museum of Art, China

2006, Exhibition “Focus on Guangzhou” in London Gallery West

Published / Press

2023, Envisaging Genealogies and Disability Justice, Sabrina Tirvengadum x Bindi Vora, Autograph

2023, The top 5 art exhibitions to see in London in November, Tabish Khan, FAD Magazine

2023, Project, Her eyes, Shades of Noir

2023, Studio Highlights, SPACE Studios

2022, Text, Andrew Brown: Entangled Ilford, SPACE Studios

2022, Interview, Make Bank

2022, Collage pieces, NYM magazine

2021, Interview, Creative Entrepreneur

2020, Dating: Mixed Signals, written and illustration featured on dubble online magazine

2020, Questions for the future LION x WeTransfer