Usha Mahenthiralingam

Usha Mahenthiralingham is an interdisciplinary artist working across visual arts, movement, film, performance, activism, and creative mentoring practices.

Based in Nottingham, she responds to the life of enquiry within health, ecology, and education. She has become increasing fascinated by the neuroscience of developmental movement and the multifaceted ways in which we play, learn, embody, relate, and interconnect.

Beginning as a Textile artist she has gone on to train in somatic and developmental movement practices. She feels passionately that intelligence is not just in the head but involves our whole wonderful selves. She celebrates keeping the creative process alive to support our own and our planet’s wellbeing.