Dan Auluk (b. 1970, Birmingham, UK) is a British-South Asian artist born, living and working in Birmingham. He graduated with an MA in Fine Art from The School Of Art, Birmingham City University, in 2014.
“Since 2020, there is a greater focus on research, around self-compassion; how self-kindness, shared experiences, and mindfulness play a role in our emotional health and wellbeing. Creativity has always been a way for me to take care of myself by connecting to self, others, my lived experiences of trauma and anxiety; and a way to be kinder to myself. My artworks emerge from my internal experiences of anxiety of anticipatory grief and fears of loss, as a way of healing. Alongside this, I develop collaborative projects that create situations for connection, where meaning is produced collectively through participation and exchange, to reduce types of isolation. These projects often function as live encounters, questioning how intimacy and communication is performed, witnessed, and negotiated.
Across these approaches, I am concerned with how art making moves between the personal and social, blurring boundaries between self and other, original and copy, presence and projection.”
