Shivanjani Lal is a Fijian-Australian artist and curator whose work uses personal grief to delve into issues surrounding ancestral loss. Recent works have incorporated storytelling into objects and video to account for lost stories of the Girmitiya (Indentured) from the Indian and Pacific oceans. Truth-telling and monument-making have become focal points of her research in an attempt to decipher what is lost in addition to the possibilities of futures. Between 2017 and 2018, Lal sought to globalise her practice with a prolonged stay in India, which led to periods of research in Nepal, Bangladesh and Fiji. She has received the New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (2019) and was a Georges Mora Fellow (2020). The artist graduated with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a master’s in Artists Film and Moving Image (2021), and she received the QAGOMA Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship (2023). Lal’s work has been exhibited across Australia and internationally.