In this episode, we speak to Shilo Shiv Suleman, artist and founder of The Fearless Collective. Shilo describes finding her voice as a artist starting at the age of just 13, founding The Fearless Collective - working with communities across the world to create resistance through creativity, and how through the collective she visualises a fairer future.

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Shilo Shiv Suleman is an award-winning Indian artist whose work lives and breathes at the intersection of Magical Realism, Art, Nature, Culture, Technology, and Social Justice. She began her career at 16 as a children’s book illustrator and had 10 published books by the time she was 20. As an INK fellow, her work became known when her talk made it to TED.com, and got just under a million views in 2012. She was then chosen as one of the three pioneering Indian women at TEDGlobal, and spoke at conferences like WIRED, DLD in London and Munich. She also felicitated with the Femina “Woman of Worth award”, the New India Express ‘Devi Awards in 2015 and the Futurebooks Digital Innovation award in London.

She is the founder and director of the Fearless Collective- a growing movement of hundreds of artists replacing fear with love in public spaces and the frontlines of resistance movements.
She has worked with communities across the world in 16 different countries by facilitating and leading public art interventions and has painted over 40 murals with indigenous communities in Brazil, refugee and migrant communities in Beirut, queer activists in South Africa and transgender activists in Pakistan and more. Her work with Fearless has led her to represent her pioneering approach of Art and Peacebuilding at the Global Forum of Democracy, Stockholm Institute of Peace, United States Institute of Peace and be covered by a range of international media including National Geographic as "India's future leaders". Most recently she facilitated the co-creation of murals at the protests in Sri Lanka at Gotagogama, and Shaheen Bagh during the CAA/NRC protests.

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