Daniel Trivedy
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Biography
Daniel Trivedy is a multidisciplinary artist of Indian descent based near Swansea. His practice uses art as a form of enquiry, drawing on research, reflection, and material experimentation to explore themes of identity, migration, belonging, and connection. Informed by critical theory and personal histories, his work examines the tensions between cohesion and division in contemporary society.
Working across a range of materials and processes, Trivedy is interested in how objects and surfaces carry layered histories and shifting meanings. Through transformation, repetition, and re-contextualisation, his work explores the relationship between material culture, memory, and place, creating spaces for reflection on the social and emotional dimensions of lived experience.
In 2019, Trivedy was awarded the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod. His work is held in both private and public collections, including National Museum Wales and Cyfarthfa Castle.
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Works
Daniel Trivedy
Emergency Blanket IHand printed on Thermal Foil52cm x 52cmGold foil emergency blankets hand-printed with traditional Welsh blanket patternsGold foil emergency blankets hand-printed with traditional Welsh blanket patternsLlanrwst 2019
Gold Medal for Fine ArtA response to the Welsh Government's declaration of Wales as a Sanctuary Nation, Emergency Blankets brought together two charged visual elements: the patterned Welsh blanket — with its associations of warmth, tradition and memory — and the gold foil emergency blanket, familiar from documentary images of refugee camps and migrant arrivals. Printed by hand onto thermal foil, the collision of the two materials opens onto multiple readings: survival, belonging, heritage, and the distance between comfort and crisis. The series won the Gold Medal for Fine Art at the 2019 National Eisteddfod in Conwy and remains an ongoing body of work.
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