The Land sings Back, curated by Natasha Ginwala opens on 25th September ’25 and continues till 14th December ’25 at @drawingroomlondon

So excited to be showing some drawings in this show alongside a stellar line-up of artists.
Friends in London, please do visit.

Much gratitude to @natasha_ginwala @colomboscope @taimurhassan.collection for the support. 🙏🏼🌱

Participating artists include Lado Bai, Shiraz Bayjoo, Lavkant Chaudhary, Jasmine Nilani Joseph, Manjot Kaur, Otobong Nkanga, Rupaneethan Pakkiyarajah, Joydeb Roaja, Anupam Roy, Anushka Rustomji, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Arulraj Ulaganathan and Charmaine Watkiss.

‘The land knows you, even when you are lost.’

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Potawatomi botanist and author

The Land Sings Back reimagines our relationship to our breathing planet through the work of thirteen artists with ancestries across South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Engaging with these cultural vocabularies through a lens of environmental justice, the exhibition approaches drawing as an active agent of social history, Indigenous knowledge and ecofeminist philosophy, rather than as a tool of illustration, classification and conquest. Exposing entanglements between the human-vegetal-animal, the works explore how botanical consciousness can reshape relationships among multitudinous life-forms, making room for regeneration amidst indebtedness, infrastructural collapse and neocolonial inheritance. The Land Sings Back encourages a connection with ancestral wisdom, reciprocal rather than extractive relationships with land.

Cover image by Manjot Kaur, " The Convocation of Eagles" (detail), 2025

Snippet of my drawing, "Flesh and Foliage (I)", 2023.
@anushkarustomji