New Cavendish Arts Science Fellow announced

We are thrilled to welcome interdisciplinary artist Thulani Rachia as the next Cavendish Arts Science Fellow at Girton College, following selection from over 700 artists worldwide who responded to the annual Open Call.

Thulani will be in residence in Cambridge until September 2026, exchanging ideas with physicists at the Cavendish Laboratory and Fellows working across multiple disciplines at Girton College.

​​”I’m looking forward to how the conversations and encounters within this community will inspire unexpected shifts in my practice and reveal new ways of seeing and working.”

– Thulani Rachia, CAS Fellow 2025/6

Thulani Rachia is a South African artist working across moving image, performance, music composition, and sculpture. His broader inquiry, rooted in his research-based practice Siwaguba kanjani amaphupho ethu agqitjwe kulezindonga? (in his mother tongue isiZulu, ‘How do we excavate the dreams laid to rest in these walls?’), centres on two key processes in his work: critique and recovery—seeking a collective reclamation from the cultural erasure and displacement wrought by colonial ethnocide.

His work has been exhibited at institutions and festivals both nationally and internationally including São Paulo-Arte; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Subsolo Laboratorio de Art São Paulo; Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art and Edinburgh Art Festival.

About Cavendish Arts Science programme and fellowhip

The Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship supports the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of experimenting, decentring and re-imagining. It is designed for artists to develop thought-provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields, and to experiment with new approaches to their practice that are transformative and push boundaries. 

This Fellowship is delivered through a partnership between Cavendish Arts Science, an initiative of the Cavendish Laboratory, and Girton College, thanks to the vision and support of Una Ryan. 

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