I’m Divyam Raghunath, a London-based artist working across painting, digital media, installations, and moving images. My practice explores the shifting nature of identity, perception, and spatial transformation, deeply shaped by my own experiences of movement across cities like Patna, Sydney, Singapore, and now London.

Lately, I’ve been investigating the politics of visibility and sky-access in rapidly urbanising spaces. My recent works including The Sky Colony, use upward-looking videography, projection, and public interventions to question who gets to see the sky in cities dominated by private high-rises and architectural gatekeeping. This builds on my ongoing interest in the relationship between humans and the built environment between intimacy and alienation, rootedness and dislocation.

I create spaces, both physical and digital, that invite viewers to reconsider how we relate to architecture, to each other, and to the emotional landscapes of home and belonging. My paintings, meanwhile, allow me to dwell more quietly on memory and place, often translating personal experience into abstract forms and textures.

I’ve shown work internationally at venues including the Royal College of Art (London), Hockney Gallery (London), The Stainless Gallery (New Delhi), HEARTH Gallery (Singapore), and Alliance Française de Singapour. I’ve also been part of public art projects and festivals such as Singapore Art Week, Artwalk Little India, and Marina Bay Sands.

Currently, I’m completing my MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art (2025), after receiving a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (2021), and a Graphic Design Certificate from CalArts (2022).

Parallel to my artistic practice, I’ve worked as an Art Director in advertising—developing campaigns for brands like Durex, Veet, Mountain Dew, and IndusInd Bank with agencies like HAVAS and Leo Burnett. This hybrid background continues to influence how I think about visual communication, public space, and the politics of representation.

At the core of my work is a search for emotional resonance within systems of transition, fragmentation, and change.

I’m a multidisciplinary artist based in London, working across painting, installation, photography and moving image. My practice explores how urban environments subtly shape emotional life. I’m interested in how built space affects how we move, what we see and where we feel we belong.

Having grown up in a small town in India and later lived in Singapore and London, I often navigate a quiet tension between warmth and detachment, vibrancy and sterility. These shifts across geographies, cultures and emotional landscapes are at the core of my work.

The sky plays a central role in my visual language. I see it as a shared, open plane, something that should feel universal. But in cities it becomes fractured, boxed in by architecture, filtered through glass or lost to vertical ambition. I’m interested in how something so expansive can be made to feel inaccessible, and what that reveals about the politics of space and visibility.

My work often reorients perspective. It invites the viewer to look up, down or through, and to experience space as unstable, mediated or quietly loaded. I think about architecture not just as physical structure, but as emotional infrastructure. A container for memory, aspiration and erasure.

I’m influenced by ideas of psychogeography and hyperreality, where place becomes something we don’t just occupy but absorb, project onto and sometimes get lost within. Rather than creating monumental forms, I focus on the intimate and the fragmented. Moments of distortion, softness or spatial confusion become a way to reclaim emotional presence in the built world.

For me, the city is both subject and surface. It is a place where identity drifts, visibility shifts and even the sky has to be found.