Divya Sharma is a London-based British Indian textile artist and an alumni of the
Royal College of Art, London. Her practice brings together myth, memory, and the
cultural world of her mother tongue, Tamil. These strands are woven through labour,
colour, composition, and scale, transforming tapestry into a form of text through the
act of tufting itself. Rooted in a lifelong love for textiles and texture, her practice was
shaped by growing up in India in a home where fabric was not merely material, but
language and legacy. Textiles became her earliest mode of storytelling—tactile,
rhythmic, and emotionally fulfilling—deeply influenced by her mother, who created
fabric sculptures.

In a world increasingly defined by speed and disposability, Divya’s slow, labour-
intensive process functions as an act of resistance and devotion. She conceives her
works as transcendental encounters rather than static objects. Through immersive
scale, saturated colour, and dense tactility, she invites viewers into a sensorial
experience that mirrors her own process—a form of interdimensional time travel in
which memory, body, and imagination collapse into one.

Website: artbydivya.com
Instagram: @divyasharmastudio