Saima Kaur is a textile artist specialising in hand embroidery inspired by Indian folk art. With its bold shapes, bright colours and areas of pure stitch, Kaur’s work has a strong graphic quality. Her joyful embroideries combine people, animals and patterns to create works that suggest otherworldly stories.

She is a self-taught textile with an undergraduate degree in Contemporary Arts and an MA in Museum Studies. Her work is informed by her decade of working in the museums sector and her deep interest in 19th Century Phulkari embroideries from Punjab, India.