"Akshita's potential as a cultural leader is evident in every aspect of her work as part of this course and in her wider community work."
Dr Phoebe Patey Ferguson, Dr Brian Lobel and Lehni Lamide-Davies
Akshita - Artistic Changemaker |
Akshita - Artistic Changemaker |
Full of creative thinking, good vibes and a glass half full, Akshita is an award-winning Artistic Changemaker.
An incredibly determined and courageous human, she works across several art forms, in tow with her passion for sociopolitical change and stories on all levels, wherever she ends up. She believes there is always space to learn, whether together or apart. Having grown up as a world citizen, she is now based in London, after graduating BA (Hons) Theatre and Social Change at Rose Bruford College with a First Class Honours.
Curated by an infinite curiosity, Akshita’s toolkit is full of ever-growing care practices, leadership, producer brains, theatre experimentation, film adoration, virtual reality imagination, a love for people and a fighting philosophy of 'prevention over cure’, and where that isn’t possible, a deep calling to nurture healing.
Artistic Statement
Always with her eyes to the sky and her heart with people, Akshita makes work by weaving reality with imagination to create portals to what the world could be. Nurturing care and empathy to create a domino effect of cultural change and vibrant expansion, to contextualise the power that people dream of in never-arrived tomorrows, she digs. Digging to unearth the unfiltered nature that is often shut away, she holds moments of multifaceted energies through objects, bodies and stories told through sensory experiences, whether live or through immersive or interactive technology. Through her words, often woven across different tongues and styles of working, she relishes disarming the spoken status quo as well as it’s unspoken counterpart; encouraging curiosity in the space where unquestioned beliefs previously existed to open the door to conversation, regardless of which creative hat she dons in that minute. Loving bright colours, uninhibited mayhem and a messy playground full of wizards and dreamscapes of the future, Akshita looks at the ways the world could heal.