Jasleen Kaur and Katie Schwab
in collaboration with Serpentine Galleries
Over the course of 2019-2022, artists Jasleen Kaur and Katie Schwab will work closely with staff and patients at Imperial College Healthcare Trust, thinking through questions around frailty and ageing, care and healthcare, and the NHS today. The residency will explore intersections between arts and health, working alongside a Trust wide ‘Frailty Project’. The Frailty project is a programme seeking to improve older patients’ pathways through the
hospital system whilst working with staff to increase their confidence and skills in caring for ‘frail’ patients.
Jasleen Kaur (b.1986, Glasgow) is an artist currently living and working in London. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within the material and immaterial things that surround us. Her practice examines the hierarchy of histories and labour using a range of mediums and methods including sculpture, video, conversation and cooking.
Katie Schwab’s practice interweaves personal, social, and craft-based histories, often drawing from traditions of living, making and working collectively. Spanning exhibition-making, design commissions, printed resources and workshops, she works across arts, learning and community contexts to explore the ways in which manual and social forms of production can develop within shared spaces.