Works
Quilt Me A River
About
Andrea Mindel was born in South Africa in 1963 and lives and works in the shadows of Virginia and Leonard Woolf in Rodmell, East Sussex.
Currently Mindel is deeply engrossed in archival explorations, crossing disciplines from writing to performance, sculpture, film, textiles, technical hand embroidery and delivering creative workshops. She constructs objects and scenarios with words and phrases to decipher complex issues and inequities.
Her practice forms the ground of her resistance to the enduring impacts of colonialism, racial injustice, disability rights, and gender inequality. She is horrified by the live-streaming of genocide, and the existential realities of climate change and ecological loss.
Mindel is the 2026 Artist in the Archives for the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex. Her project Quilt Me A River, is an Unlimited public commission made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England which will be presented at Bethlem Gallery in 2027. It examines the language in the case books held in the archives at Bethlem Museum of the Mind in terms of agency and as an evolving means of diagnosis.
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