Mansi Shouche
I am a multi-media visual artist with a practice rooted in nature and informed by ancient craft practices. I work with natural materials while exploring connections between ecology and cultural identity. My methods are slow, labour intensive, and attuned to my local environment, with material integrity, and respect for nature being paramount.
I also draw upon autoethnographic elements influenced by my rich and multilayered South Asian cultural heritage, and my life in England.
I aim to create contemplative works and participatory workshops that invite reflection on belonging, sustainability, and our shared relationship with the natural world.
Lived Experience
Originally from India, I have been living in England for more than 20 years. I therefore have two parts of the world that I consider home and feel a belonging to. I came to art much later in life which organically led to a conscious career change. My family consists of my husband and teenage son who fully embrace, encourage and enjoy my creative adventures as much as me.
CV Mansi Shouche
Address- 21, Over Road,
Willingham,
CB24 5EU
Phone no 07912877926
Email- shouchemansi@gmail.com
Education
Master of Fine Arts, ARU, Cambridge,2025
Bachelor of Fine Arts, ARU, Cambridge, 2023
Foundation in Arts, Cambridge Regional College, Cambridge, 2018
Exhibitions
Solo -
2026- Award of a Solo exhibition at Cambridge Artspace, Cambridge. 20th-22nd November 2026.
Group Exhibitions
June 2026- ReArticulations. An Education and Environmental Justice Collective and ARU Cambridge Collaborative Exhibition.
May 2026- Give and Take. A pop-up exhibition on value and exchange. Judge Business School. Cambridge.
February 2026 – Antidote. Cambridge Artworks.
October-November 2025: ‘Emerald Green, Mineral Green’, House Guest Exhibition at the David Parr House
July 2025: ‘TEN’ Ma Fine Art Degree Show, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University.
April 2025: The Sustainability Art and Design Prize Exhibition, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
November 2024: ‘The Art of Living’, The David Parr House, Cambridge
April 2024: ‘Altered’, Grand Arcade, Cambridge
February 2024: ‘Landed’, at the Banks Art Centre, Suffolk
September 2023 – November 2024: ‘The Anxiety of the Interdisciplinary’, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge
July 2023: Degree Show BA (Hons) Fine Art
2023: Midpoint interim show at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge 2022: Sustainable Art Prize, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge
2022:’Human Perspectives’, Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge.
2021:’Sustainability Art Prize’, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge
2121:’Current’, It is What It is, Online exhibition
2020: Open Windows, Cambridge
2020: Balcony Exhibition, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2019- 2020: Mott McDonalds Office Space Exhibition, Cambridge
2019: Foundation Show for Diploma in Art and Design, Cambridge Regional College
Workshops
Upcoming Workshops
August 2026: Baandhani. An Indian Heritage Textile Tie and Die Resist Craft. Sol Creative Foundry, Dry Drayton. Cambridge
October 2026: Hands and Heritage. Baandhani. An Indian Heritage Textile Tie and Die Resist Craft. Sol Creative Foundry, Dry Drayton. Cambridge
Previous Workshops
June 2026: Listening to Lichen. Creating a Living Syntax By Co Creating with Nature. Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary approaches to the Polycrisis.
Collaborative workshop with Leap Lab, Daniela Dora and Stepanka Facerova.
March 2026: The Word for World is Forest. Cambridge Festival.
Collaborative workshop with Leap Lab, Daniela Dora and Stepanka Facerova.
September 2025: Playground for Remaking Worlds, David Graeber Institute,London. With Leap Lab Cambridge.
March 2025: Imprints and Inscriptions; Creating Botanical Biographies Through Literature. Cambridge Festival.
Collaborative workshop with Leap Lab, Daniela Dora and Stepanka Facerova.
Jan 2025: Staff Development Day at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University.
2024 September: ‘South Asian Heritage Art Project’, curated by Milton Keynes Art Centre in Marylebone School Basingstoke
2023 September to November: Natural Cambourne, 6 workshops conducted with Arts and Minds in the Cambourne Library, Cambridgeshire.
2023 April: ‘Creating Colour from Nature’. Three-hour workshop conducted at the Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes.
July to August 2023: Three Workshops for Visually Impaired participants. Conducted collaboratively with artist Stepanka Facerova at the David Parr House, Cambridge.
September 2021 to April 2022: Teaching Assistant as part of the Saturday Art Club, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University.
2021October: ‘Of the Earth’. Workshop- Clay, Sculpture and Abstract Painting using the materials beneath our feet. Heong Gallery, Cambridge
2021: ‘The Create Club’, online workshop hosted on Eventbrite through Anglia Ruskin University.
Residencies
New Platform Art Cohort: 2025-2026
Darwin Dialogues: Confronting Global Challenges Through Dialogue. Darwin College. Cambridge 27 - 28th April 2026
Caravan Residency at Cambridge Artworks and Artspace, Cambridge October 13th -2nd November 2025
Summer School August 2023
After the Green Revolution: The Science and Politics of Sustainable Food Systems in the Anthropocene. CRASSH Cambridge, Global Sustainability Institute.
Ongoing Interview Series, Weaving Currents
‘Weaving Currents’ at Cambridge Artspace in collaboration with artist Clio Lloyd-Jacob. A series which focuses on artists of South Asian origin and their cultural influences.
June 2024: Ceramicist Vallari Harshwal in conversation with Mansi Shouche
September 2204: Textile artist Tanvi Kant
October 2024: Sustainable textile artist Paaras Abbas
Talks
March 2026: Artists Spotlight- Opening talk for Sol Creative Foundry. Dry Drayton, Cambridge
2023: Cambridge Artworks: Pathways: An artist's talk and practice sharing: Helen Cook, Susan Mealing, Mansi Shouche
Awards
First Prize of Solo Exhibition at Cambridge Artworks in Ma Fine Art Degree Show. Anglia Ruskin University. Cambridge 2025.
Runner up at Sustainability Art and Prize Design. Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge 2025.
Runner up BA Fine Art Degree Show, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge 2024.
Reviews
Review by Marilyn Marsh of 'Rooted in the Land, Notes From an Urban Landscape, 2025. on a-n website
Link
https://www.a-n.co.uk/person/marilyn-marsh/
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