shemza.digital #3, 2021

Aphra Shemza & Stuart Batchelor in collaboration with the public

Medium: Interactive digital painting application and real time animation

Dimensions: Variable

Programming by Peter Todd | Videography Matthew Kaltenborn

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 #3 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 watch them come to life in the real time animation. The artwork can be displayed on a projector or screen depending on the space available.