Artist Statement
Ushara is a sonic performance artist and trained soprano working across opera, composition, and experimental theatre. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, where she developed an interdisciplinary practice centred on expanded vocal techniques, sound, and performance.
Working with voice, pipe organ, cello, field recordings, and poetic text, Ushara creates immersive sonic environments that merge mutated operatic forms with embodied performance. Her practice investigates themes of womanhood, identity, and trauma through narrative structures, positioning the voice as both instrument and archive.
As an interdisciplinary artist, sound and performance sit at the core of her work, incorporating the body, experimental vocalisation, and site-responsive composition to explore the boundaries between music, theatre, and ritual.
Current Soprano Artist in Residence at Brompton Cemetery.
Current recipient of Sound and Music, In Motion programme.
Ushara is also a resident DJ with monthly radio Sessions interviewing experimental musicians, including regular mixes of experimental neoclassical sounds on Rough Radio and frequently publishing music and performance reviews on Threads London.
usharax@gmail.com
@ushara_x
Listen to Twilight Zone Episodes here.
Read Substack uploads here.
EducationRoyal College of Arts:
MA Information Experience Design
(2024)
University of Bath:
BEng Structural Engineering 1st Class Honours
(2022)
Grade 7 ABRSM
Soprano
Piano
Residencies
EMS- Elektronmusikstudio residency
March 2027
Colomboscope- weather reports residency
January 2026, fully funded
Brompton Cemetery Soprano/ Artist in Residence
2026, full year
Countdown Grabowsee
August 2025
Bozcaada Gathering
June 2025, fully funded
Brompton Cemetery Soprano/ Artist in Residence
2025, full year
Countdown Grabowsee
August 2024
MAP Silk Street Theatre
February/ April 2024
Notable Institution workSperling Munich
The Triangle that reshapes the O of my mouth- in Collaboration with Anousha Payne
May 2026
Poppy Jasper International Film Festival
April 2026
Judgement Hall Festival
As part of NYX
April26
V&A East
As part of NYX
April26
Nonclassical Label
Cell Deletion
March 2026
London Design Week
September 2025
Liverpool Art Biennale
September 2025
Eavesdropping Forum
March 2025
MAP Residency x Guildhall
Assistant Tutor with Nell Catchpole and Sophie Clements.
February/ April 2025 and 2026
Bath Arts Fringe
May 2024
IRCAM Forum
March 2024
Grants and Scholarships
Colomboscope
British Arts Council Funding 2026
Sound and Music
In Motion Composer grant- 2025
Royal College of Arts
Academic Excellence scholarship- 2024
Exhibitions
External to Brompton Cemetery residency. Triangle reshapes the O of my mouth
Sperling Gallery (Munich) (w. Anousha Payne)
Installation | Performance
May 2026
TAE
St Augustine Towers
Sculpture | Performance
March 2026
An exhalation of a drawn-out moment
And or not Gallery
Publication | Sculpture
February 2026
Grabowsee Showcase
Grabowsee Berlin
Mutated Operatics
August 2025
Interconnected Beings
Hyphae Studios, Hackney
Video | Publication | Sculpture
October 2024
Grabowsee Showcase
Grabowsee Berlin
Painting | Performance
August 2024
Graduation Show
RCA Garden House
Installation | Publication
July 2024
LORE
Strange Brew
Film installation
January 2024
Exhumation
Walcot Chapel, Bath
Curation | Painting | Sculpture | Performance
August 2023
Press Sound and Music In Motion Composer interview
2025
Prxludes composer interview
2026
Landscape Silence Night
2025
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