Pooja Rajashekar

Pooja Rajashekar is an artist based in the UK, originally from Bengaluru, India. Working primarily with acrylic, her practice explores women’s lived experiences within domestic and socio-cultural spaces. She incorporates ritualistic materials and domestic motifs as extensions of the painted surface, building layered works that reflect on labour, visibility, and social hierarchy. Drawing from personal and generational knowledge, her paintings examine how everyday objects, cultural symbols, and inherited structures shape ideas of femininity. Through a subtly surreal lens, her work considers the ways power is embedded in domestic life, gendered labour, and classed experience.