Hamshya Rajkumar is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, sculpture, ecology and community seed.
By situating the body outside the constraints of binary structures, they explore our human place in a world where ‘Nature’ is separate, dominated and objectified.
Combining a site-specific movement and visual arts practice, they currently focus on highly ‘disturbed’ places, ranging from post-industrial landscapes to gardens. For the past 5 years, Hamshya has been exploring the former industrial steelworks Ravenscraig site in Scotland.
Hamshya also works as a Seed Librarian at the Glasgow Seed Library working with wild and cultivated seed. As a member of Hewin, Rizzle & Baise, their multi-species design was long-listed for the Davidson Prize in 2024. In addition, with the tine collective, they recently exhibited in ‘A Fragile Correspondence’ at the Scotland + Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023 and the V&A Dundee in 2024-2025.
On Eigg, Hamshya will spend time developing an interdisciplinary work that explores climate grief, conservation control, and ecological rage through the figure of a mythic dominatrix.
