Rooted in drawing, Rekha Godbole’s interdisciplinary practice extends into film, animation, light projection, sound, printmaking and sculpture.

Beguiled by an archive of old scientific diagrams, astronomical photographs, cameras and family albums, she is drawn to the places art, science, mythology and personal history quietly intersect.

Exploring analogue and digital technologies and photographic processes as ways of apprehending and mediating our understanding, Rekha plays with themes of storytelling, imagination and magical realism, the interconnectedness of things, the nature of the cosmos and her place within it or memories obfuscated through time and interpretation.

Sometimes mischevious or unapologetically irreverent, sometimes contemplative and sensitive, Rekha interweaves imagery and narratives, the residue of lives and knowledge systems that time has made strange, as ‘alchemical experiments’, opening up a space of wonder, where ordinary things become lunimous, and meaning slips playfully between the literal and the imagined.

A teacher since 2008, an undergraduate of Social Anthropology and an alumna of West Dean College of Art & Conservation, where she earned a Post-Graduate Diploma and Master of Fine Art, Rekha’s work reflects a reverence for the myriad ways we understand and navigate the world and how those ideas might be communicated. As a British Indian artist, questions of identity, belonging and the fluidity of culture run through her practice, together with a deep curiosity about how we understand the world, how knowledge is passed on, distorted, forgotten and transformed.

Rekha has co-curated and exhibited work as part of West Dean’s Summer Show, pop-up exhibitions and at The Copeland Gallery in Peckham, South London.

In June 2025, Rekha travelled to Jaipur, Rajasthan, to participate in a documentary filmmaking project, in collaboration with Michigan State University and the Indian Institute of Craft and Design, directing, editing and producing a documentary film shown at the Crafts, Camera, Culture film festival at the Rajasthan International Centre and selected as part of the Centre of Integrative Studies Film Sessions at MSU.

She has exhibited a solo light and sound installation in the Old Dining Room at West Dean and her ceramic work was selected to be shown at‘Where Craft Lives’ group exhibition in Bloomsbury, as part of London Craft Week, in May ‘26.

Based on the south coast of England, where Rekha lives with her loved ones, she teaches, makes art, walks, sings and swims in the sea.