Siuli-mo Pal (b.2001) is a British Indian artist born and raised in London, UK. Her practice explores home, memory, migration and belonging, examining how histories of displacement continue to shape diasporic identity.

Siuli holds a First Class Honours BA in Art and Art History from the University of Reading, where she was nominated for the Freelands Painting Prize and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. She currently lives and works in London, where she continues to develop a practice situated between personal experience, family history and wider political narratives.

At the centre of Siuli’s work is a longing for a place that is both familiar and distant. Growing up in Britain, her relationship with India has been shaped by childhood visits, family photographs, stories and inherited memories. Having not returned for seven years, she reflects on an increasingly idealised motherland, and on the people and relationships she has been unable to know because of distance. Painting becomes a way of reconstructing these fragments while acknowledging what cannot be recovered.

Siuli’s personal experience sits within the wider legacy of British imperialism, Partition and the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. She is interested in how these histories become embedded within family narratives and passed between generations. Her experience of growing up British Indian and working class, moving repeatedly between houses without a stable home, further informs her exploration of displacement and belonging.

Through figurative imagery, expressionistic mark-making, colour, light and material, Siuli brings personal memory into dialogue with collective history, reflecting on the experience of belonging to somewhere that exists simultaneously in memory, imagination and lived experience. Her work asks what it means to belong when home is not a fixed place, but something continually reconstructed through distance, memory and desire. In this sense, painting becomes a way of navigating the distance between the home she inherited, the home she remembers, and the home she continues to search for.