Kamini Gupta’s early career was as a graphic designer. She later trained as a theatre designer achieving a First Class Honours Degree from Rose Bruford College and has wide experience over ten years of designing for a range of theatre spaces and productions nationally.

Kamini creates site responsive installations, co-creates original performance works and facilitates community arts projects. Her recent work explores environmental concerns, connecting the local to the global and has a strong participatory focus. She often invites the viewer to co-create the work. Ritual, cross-cultural connections and the experience of migration inform her work.

In her creative explorations she uses her diverse range of skills and experience to express herself across art-forms, including paint, clay, mixed media, film, ephemeral art forms, movement, drama, writing, and more recently, film.

In 1998 Kamini spent a year at Sharpham College for Buddhist studies and Contemporary Enquiry in Devon. The programme of study included, enquiry, community living, retreat, imaginative expression, land-work and service. The study programme included Buddhist philosophy, psychology, ecology and meditation.

In 2005 Kamini was awarded an Arts Council England bursary to support her artistic and professional development. In 2006 her installation Blue Gold at the Phoenix Gallery, Exeter was featured on BBC Southwest Spotlight News and her work at the Appledore visual arts festival appeared in The Guardian (June 5 2006). Kamini's story, A Visit from the Queen, was runner up in the Decibel Penguin short story competition.

Kamini recently won a commission from South West Screen to create a short art film as part of their Screen Shift initiative. The film is due to be completed in July 2007 and will tour South West venues later in the year.