neemat auladin

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Neemat is a Brent-based artist whose practice celebrates the natural world while exploring her Mauritian heritage and identity. The daughter of Mauritian immigrants, her work reflects on themes of migration, belonging, memory, and cultural resilience. She has collaborated with the Horniman Museum and Harrow Arts Centre, using art to connect personal histories with wider social and historical narratives.

Mauritius is a nation shaped by slavery, indentured labour, and colonialism, resulting in today's rich and diverse multicultural society. Although many former sugar plantations have been preserved as museums, Neemat believes that the lived experiences and enduring legacy of those who laboured there are not always given the recognition they deserve.

Through watercolour, Neemat's work honours the struggles and resilience of the generations who worked in the sugarcane fields and the communities that grew around them. Sugarcane becomes both a symbol of hardship and of the shared origins of Mauritian identity. For the Mauritian diaspora—including her own family and communities across the UK and around the world—it represents a powerful connection to heritage, survival, and belonging.