Rajan Bijlani: London home and South Asian art exhibition visit

Rajan Bijlani, a collector and dealer of art and historical design as well as a real estate developer, will give us a private tour of his home in Primrose Hill. Fonthill Pottery, a butcher’s shop between 1871 and 1930, was the former home and studio of the potter and activist Emmanuel Cooper OBE. Thanks to meticulous research that informed substantial structural interventions, Rajan turned the studio into a domestic space that retains its original character and charm.

Fonthill Pottery currently houses Syncretic Voices, Art & Design in South Asian Diaspora exhibition, co-curated by Rajan, Truls Blaasmo and Michael Jefferson. It combines furniture by Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier from Chandigarh, which featured prominently in the recent Tropical Modernism exhibition at the V&A, with ceramics, paintings and sculptures by Rana Begum RA (Rana has been supporting Kettle’s Yard by designing a set of limited-edition buttons), Lubna Chowdhary, Vipeksha Gupta, Harminder Judge, Tanya Ling, and Soumya Netrabile. This will be one of the last opportunities to see the exhibition as it is due to close at the end of October.

Those of you interested in art related to South Asia may want to head to the Barbican before the 6^th of January to see The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998 and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s It Will End In Tears.