Nep Sidhu’s perspective bridges Sikhism, Islam, and indigenous cultural practises and is in ‘Shadows in the Major Seventh’ exhibit which displayed at the Surrey Art Gallery. 
Learn more about the art, artist, and ideas behind the exhibition in this tour and talk on Wednesday, April 27 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. The clothing, prayer rugs, tapestries, and paintings of Nep Sidhu tell stories in ’Shadows in the Major Seventh.’ Leading the tour will be Jordan Strom, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, who will be joined in conversation by special guest Satwinder Bains, Director at the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, University of the Fraser Valley. The event is free.
Originally a welder by trade, he comes from a long line of storytellers. Sidhu has a non-commercial clothing line Paradise Sportif. These garments are worn by pioneering personalities in the music group Shabazz Palaces and the arts collective Black Constellation. The exhibit also has a large prayer rugs that honour Malcolm X, elaborate gowns that address the empowerment of women in India and First Nations women in Canada and Alaska and paintings that combine steel sculpture and calligraphy.

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Confirmation: Nep Sidhu, Confimation A (2013−present), detail, ink on paper, brass, sheet veneer marble, 86” x 86”. Photo: Mark Woods (Courtesy of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle). 

Malcolm's-Smile: Nep Sidhu, Malcolm’s Smile, 7a, 7b, 7c (2015), wool, poly-cotton, aluminum, 150” x 96” x 15”. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation, Douglas Smith. Made in Collaboration with Ishmael Butler’s sound installation Ecdysis. Photo: Mark Woods (Courtesy of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle). 

No-Pigs-in-Paradise: Nep Sidhu and Nicolas Galanin, No Pigs in Paradise (2016), detail. Textiles by Sidhu and adornment by Galanin. Photo courtesy of Anchorage Museum, Alaska. 

Paradise-Sportif: Nep Sidhu, Collection of Paradise Sportif (2013−2014), detail, various materials. Photo: Mark Woods (Courtesy of the Frye Art Museum).