shemza.digital, 2021

Aphra Shemza & Stuart Batchelor in collaboration with the public

In-browser interactive work

Images created by members of the public using the shemza.digital.

The shemza.digital project is based on the work of Aphra Shemza’s grandfather, the well known British/Pakistani painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. In the last 10 years there has been a rethinking of British Art History and migrant artists like Anwar Jalal Shemza are being given the recognition that they deserve. In shemza.digital Aphra Shemza and Stuart Batchelor have used participatory art as a way to highlight Anwar Shemza’s work to the public and ask them to become actively involved in artmaking by becoming artists themselves.

For shemza.digital Shemza and Batchelor have created a digital painting application that is hosted online, where the public is invited to create their own digital paintings and submit them to the online archive. The public contributions are submitted to the archive and with a view to being turned into collaborative artworks in the future. View the archive of participant paintings here: www.shemza.digital/archive