Poet‑dancer at a painting show

Olivia Fraser opened her New Delhi exhibition with a live performance by poet-dancer Tishani Doshi, turning the gallery into a shared work of painting, movement, sound and verse. (britishcouncil.in) (scroll.in) The show, *A Journey Within*, ran at the British Council in New Delhi from February 26 to April 25, 2026, with Fraser’s paintings paired with a soundscape by Jason Singh. Fraser’s exhibitions page lists the New Delhi run through April 30, 2026, while the British Council page lists April 25. (britishcouncil.in) (oliviafraser.com) Doshi’s own events page lists a February 26, 2026 performance at the British Council in Delhi “in collaboration with the artist Olivia Fraser.” Scroll reported that Doshi performed with musicians as part of the opening event. (tishanidoshi.weebly.com) (scroll.in) Fraser’s paintings draw on Indian miniature painting traditions, using geometric forms and meditative imagery tied to breath, inner landscapes and tantric ideas. The British Council described the exhibition as an immersive project linking Fraser’s visual work with Singh’s “biosonified” plant soundscape. (britishcouncil.in) (thehindu.com) That opening performance extended the exhibition’s basic idea: the paintings were not presented as static objects alone, but as part of a live exchange among image, body, music and spoken language. Scroll described the event as an enactment of “the interdependence of various art forms.” (scroll.in) Fraser has been developing *A Journey Within* across multiple venues. Her site lists earlier versions at Grosvenor Gallery in London in 2020 and Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York in 2023 before the 2026 New Delhi presentation. (oliviafraser.com) (ocula.com) The New Delhi show also fit Fraser’s longer career in India. The Hindu reported that she has lived in Delhi since the early 1990s, and her work has long reworked miniature-painting techniques into contemporary compositions. (thehindu.com) (oliviafraser.com) By the time visitors entered the gallery, the exhibition had already begun in motion: Fraser’s painted geometry on the walls, Singh’s sound in the room, and Doshi’s body and words moving through the same space. (scroll.in) (britishcouncil.in)