Confluence: a place where ideas merge or flow together
An exhibition curated and co-ordinated by Shathy Bano exploring cultural influence, identity and belonging in the community with a two-week programme of collaborative artwork, interactive workshops & conversations.
Co-commissioned and presented as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts.
Community gathering 18 October, 1-4pm
This year community artist Shathy Bano has facilitated a series of 20 art sessions involving a total of over 40 participants with experience of migration in various small group settings. The sessions involved conversations exploring cultural influence, memory, identity and language, using visual art as a tool for expression.
The exhibition at Anteros Arts Foundation brings all of the artwork together from different sessions and includes a programme of workshop activities that a free and drop-in.
The community gathering on the 18th is a celebration of the connections made by everyone who has participated in the projects.
Shathy Bano is a Bengali British visual artist with an extensive background in social work and therapeutic community art. Shathy focuses on cultural identity, transformation and loss. As a child migrant herself, her art practice draws on her life experience to create visual expressions of intersectional identity and cultural exchange through the generations, representing how this relates to the evolving, yet transitory notion of home and place.
Shathy has worked with Norfolk libraries and other community groups for several years leading art sessions. The creative sessions explores the links between culture, language and place to explore belonging and connection working collaboratively with groups.
The exhibition is a collation of the various artwork undertaken over the past year through different projects and the connections and networks made. There is an opportunity to view the artwork, and the two week programme provides a variety of art sessions and time and space for creativity and conversation.
