I work through a practice of repeated mark-making, constructing visual mandalas that map the terrain of the in-between—where cultures overlap, cities blur, and belonging is continually renegotiated between departure and arrival. Mandalas offer me a framework through which these complexities can be held—part map, part meditation, part system for navigating the uncertainty of belonging.

My perspective is shaped by a life lived across geographies and value systems. I was born in Hong Kong to Indian parents, grew up between cities, studied in the USA, and now live in Lisbon. Moving between continents has shaped a fluid sense of identity—one formed in passages, thresholds, and spaces that resist fixed definition. 

My grandmother filled hundreds of notebooks with the same mantra written daily through quiet, intentional repetition. Her ritual became a blueprint for how I understand meaning: not as a destination, but as something revealed through steady focus. Repetition sits at the centre of my practice. Each mark functions like a step, a breath, or a mantra—accumulating into geometric structures that hold both order and fluidity. Although my process is rooted in woodcut printmaking, I never create prints; the carved panel itself is the final work. Meaning emerges in the carving rather than in its reproduction, making the matrix both the method and the artwork. 

Alongside my artistic practice, I hold a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Atlanta, USA, and previously worked in global management consulting, specialising in organisational culture, strategy, and human-centred design—work I continue today as a freelance strategic consultant. My art has been featured in ChromArt Digital Magazine, Thrown Contemporary’s Winter Exhibition 23/24, and Art Basel Summer Camp 2025, and I am currently an artist-in-residence at Lagos Berlin.

Hi, i’m Tanisha.

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