Saud Baloch
My practice explores how bodies, materials and landscapes carry the traces of political, environmental and social pressures over time. Working across sculpture, drawing, installation, sound and artists' moving image, I investigate how lived experience becomes embedded in matter and how sustained acts of making, observation and material enquiry can reveal overlooked histories.
Rooted in my experience of growing up in Nushki, Balochistan, Pakistan, and informed by living and working in the United Kingdom since 2016, my work considers landscape not as a backdrop but as an active witness to memory, power and transformation. Rather than representing events directly, I am interested in how their effects accumulate through bodies, places and materials, revealing relationships between people, landscapes and systems of control.
Making is central to the way I think. Time, labour and experimentation are integral to my process, allowing meaning to emerge through sustained engagement with materials. My recent work brings together sculpture, sound and artists' moving image to create immersive installations that invite reflection on memory, absence and the enduring relationship between body, place and power.
Lived Experience
I was born in Nushki, Balochistan, Pakistan, and have lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 2016. My practice explores how bodies, materials and landscapes carry the traces of political, environmental and social pressures over time. Working across sculpture, drawing, installation, sound and artists' moving image, I investigate how lived experience becomes embedded in matter and how sustained acts of making, observation and material enquiry can reveal overlooked histories. Rooted in the landscapes of Balochistan and informed by my experience of living between Pakistan and the UK, my work examines the relationship between memory, place and materiality, considering how landscapes act as witnesses to both personal and collective histories.
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