Karl Singporewala
Karl Singporewala RWA RIBA is a chartered architect and artist whose work explores the themes of architecture, heritage, memory and contemporary material cultures. He is director of Karl Singporewala + the design bureau (KSdb) with current architecture projects in London, Brighton, Bristol and Manchester. In 2025, he was appointed a Fellow of SOAS University of London for his work into identity formation within the arts and culture sector.
Singporewala currently presides at a number of strategic arts and culture organisations throughout the UK, including the RWA Academicians Council and Exhibitions Advisory Committee; being an active member in Creative Crawley’s arts renaissance in West Sussex; helping commission new contemporary Zoroastrian art and media for the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS, as well as being a Trustee for Theatre Centre, which commissions new theatre writing nationally for young people.
Karl’s architectural drawings and sculptural maquettes are held in both public and private collections, including the RWA collection, the SOAS Public Collection, and the Princess Hamilton Collection, Bermuda. His artwork has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, V&A digital futures, The New York Institute of Technology, India Art Fair, and since 2011 at the RWA.
His current body of artwork linked to South Asian diaspora is presented by Runjeet Singh Gallery.
Gallery images (from left)
- Congregation Canyons Atria Etude (2010) 350x200x80mm laser cur card and acrylic
- Dial M for Monument (2012) 450x270x270mm laser cut handmade cotton rag with glass dome
- Doppel Communion (2020) 340x340x360 Photo etched brass with glass dome
- Franklins Morals of Chess (2014) 420x420x180mm Laser cut acrylic
- Jamnitzer's Corporium (2022) 330x620mm laser cut handmade cotton rag and timber
- Joseph's Leonarvilions (2011) 210x210x250mm laser cur handmade cotton rag and acrylic
- La Fleche de Notre Damn de Paris (2019) laser cut timber. Exhibited in the entrance foyer of the RWA to coincide with Fire Flashes to Ash
- Palmyra Unbuilt, Syria (2016) 340x450x190mm Enamelled plastic figure and glass dome.
- The Lighthouses, Pigani, Gulabdan, Soparo, Divo 2025
- Or in a Dream of a Dream 2024 - Timber
- Follow me Follow me, leave your home and family, 2026 - PVC and Carbon Fibre (image credit, Alastair Brookes, KoLAB studios
- The City's Yours, 2023 - photoetched brass.
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