Sakib Khan

Sakib Khan is a multidisciplinary artist whose work crosses digital, textiles and traditional drawing and collage, currently exploring and developing a practice that fuses these various intersections together.

As a queer person from a British South Asian Dispora background the question of cultural Identity is often a suitable theme that runs through the work, often attempting to find a balance between the dualitities of eastern and western ideologies.

Sakib’s recent work has moved into the realms of AI and is created using GAN’s which utilise machine learning and also mobile apps. Thus creating a strand to a practise focussed on accessible and emerging technologies with a screen as the initial final canvas, available to anyone with an internet connection.

An alumni from Brighton’s Fashion Textile school, Sakib has worked in styling, theatre, performance and film. As a former assistant to award winning comedy cabaret chanteuse Miss Springs, Sakib cut his teeth on sequins and wig boxes and was introduced to some of the creatives of London including the sculptor Andrew Logan. Following a successful run at The Edinburgh Fringe with Miss Hope Spring in 2014, Sakib assisted sculptor and performance artist Andrew Logan in producing his 13th Alternative Miss World at Shakespeare’s Globe, which he did again in 2018. Continuing his work with Andrew Logan, Sakib carved a niche in assisting artists, including ceramicist Kate Malone MBE, leather artisan duo Whitaker Malem and creative polymath and founder of WITCiH Bishi.

Recently Sakib joined the team of Reeta Loi’s Gaysians which has brought two strands of his interseactions identities together in the hope to bring forward positive change.