we are honoured to launch the edition of the SUP International Artist-in-Residence Programme in India, hosted in partnership with IDPT-SCET, Sarvajanik University.

The Starting Point of International Collaboration -

“SU x SUP 2025 India -UK Artist Residency and Exchange Programme”

  • Prof. Naishadh Jani

    Asst. Professor, IDPT-SCET, Sarvajanik University

  • Prof. Rajarshi Smart

    Asst. Professor, IDPT-SCET, Sarvajanik University

  • Tarla Patel

    SUP Indian Resident Artist | SU x SUP 2025

    Tarla Patel is a multidisciplinary artist from Coventry, exploring identity, memory and space through migration and storytelling, championing hidden voices. She has worked on international and UK projects with artists, organisations, and communities.

    Tarla is the proud custodian of her father Maganbhai Patel (Masterji) photography archive provides a visual documented of people migrating from the Indian subcontinent and settling in the UK from 1950s to 2000. Her direction of work primarily run through the ideas of memory, space, and identity; through stories of migration and how it connects through generations, and shapes our sense of belonging in the world we live in.

  • Nicola Hills

    SUP India Resident Artist | SU x SUP 2025

    Nicola Hills has extensive experience working as a Garden and Landscape Designer. She qualified as a Garden Designer at Merrist Wood and has worked on a number of contemporary gardens, as well as show gardens. Nicola likes to blend traditional planting schemes in a contemporary manner and believes landscape design is about making connections between personal space and the surrounding landscape. She has experience designing in the public realm as well as formal and  informal gardens for both private and commercial clients.