Nima Poovaya-Smith

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Nima Poovaya-Smith
OBE
Born1953 (age 70–71)[1]
NationalityBritish and Indian
Occupation(s)Curator, art historian, writer

Dr Ammanichanda Nima Poovaya-Smith OBE is a museum curator, art historian and writer. She is known for her work on transcultural and post-colonial South Asian museum collections in Bradford.

Early life and education

Poovaya-Smith was born in Coorg in Karnataka and was educated in Belgaum.[2][3] Her father worked in the silk industry and her mother was artistic.[2] Poovaya-Smith studied for a PhD in English Literature at the University of Mysore.[3] Poovaya-Smith came to Britain in 1981 to study at the University of Leeds.[3][4] Her original research interest was Margaret Atwood.[2]

Career

Poovaya-Smith was appointed curator at the

Black and Minority Ethnic people working in museums in the UK.[9] She has said that "if these works [by Black and Asian artists] are not captured in public collections then there’s going to be a huge distortion of history".[8][10]

Poovaya-Smith developed the Transcultural Galleries at Cartwright Hall, which in 2008 became the Connect galleries.

Sikh art and culture, Warm, Rich and Fearless (1991).[13][14] The displays were noted for their difference from traditional museum formats: "thematic, non-hierarchical, non-linear".[15]

In 1998 Poovaya-Smith became Director of the Arts Council Yorkshire.[2] She held that post until 2002.[2]

From 2002 to 2004 Poovaya-Smith was head of special projects at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford.[2][16]

She runs an arts company, Alchemy Anew.[2][17] She has also written poetry for performance.[18]

In 2020 a textile exhibition at Two Temple Place included work collected by Poovaya-Smith.[1][19]

Poovaya-Smith was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to Arts and Museums in Yorkshire.[20]

In 2020 she became one of the Deputy lieutenants of West Yorkshire.[2]

In 2022 Poovaya-Smith published a book of poetry, The Wild Cats Compendium.[21]

Personal life

Poovaya-Smith is married to Paul Smith, a sociologist.[3]

Publications

  • "Exhibitions and audiences: catering for a pluralistic public", in Museum Languages, Objects and Texts, ed. Gaynor Kavanagh (1991)
  • Warm and Rich and Fearless: A Brief Survey of the Sikh Culture: a Catalogue Produced to Accompany the Exhibition Warm and Rich and Fearless, an Exhibition of Sikh Art, Cartwright Hall (9 March - 2 June 1991), with Khushwant Singh and Kaveri Ponnapa (1991)
  • "Confessions of an Indolent Curator",
    Kunapipi
    , 19(3), 1997
  • "Making Culturally Diverse Histories", with Nick Merriman, in Making Histories in Museums, ed. Gaynor Kavanagh (2005)
  • The Wild Cats Compendium (2022)

References

  1. ^ a b c Spence, Rachel (27 February 2020). "A London exhibition takes the history of textiles out of the shadows". The Financial Times. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Belliappa, C. P. (13 February 2014). "C.P. Belliappa interviews Dr Nima-Poovaya Smith, founder of Alchemy, involved in promoting art in UK". Coorg Tourism. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Belliappa, C. P. (3 April 2020). "Mysuru-based Dr. Nima Poovaya-Smith appointed as Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire County in UK". Star of Mysore. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  4. ^ Poovaya-Smith, Nima (1995). "An intelligent inquiry: Nima Poovaya-Smith reports on her journey to Pakistan and its contemporary art". Women's Art Magazine (63). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  5. ISBN 978-1-4051-7381-0
    . Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-1-135-62872-7
    . Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  7. ^ Poovaya-Smith, Nima (1997). "Confessions of an Indolent Curator". Kunapipi. 19 (3). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  8. ^ a b Ramaswamy, Chitra (30 July 2018). "Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? Britain's Hidden Art History review – a powerful picture of whitewashing". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  9. ^ Figueiredo, Deirdre (17 April 2014). "My Gurus". Arts Professional. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Speech Acts// A Hidden Art History". MAGnet. Manchester Art Gallery. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  11. ISBN 978-1-317-09648-1
    . Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  12. ISBN 978-1-4051-7381-0
    . Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  13. ISBN 978-1-136-31869-6
    . Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  14. ISBN 978-1-134-46378-7
    . Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  15. ISBN 978-1-317-01789-9
    . Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  16. ^ Minwalla, Shabnam (5 May 2002). "'Culture can be used as a driver for economic change'". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  17. ^ "Sharing the art of Islam". The Telegraph and Argus. 20 December 2005. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  18. ^ Hutchinson, Charles (20 March 2014). "Love Beyond Measure: The Legend Of Sohni And Mahiwal, National Centre for Early Music, York, March 20". The York Press. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  19. ^ Judah, Hettie (31 January 2020). "A tangled, teasing show: Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  20. ^ "Order of the British Empire". The Gazette. 11 June 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  21. ^ Lomax, Claire (9 September 2022). "First book of poetry by Dr Nima Poovaya-Smith celebrates her profound curiosity about wild cats". Ilkley Gazette. Retrieved 25 November 2022.

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