Everything on this website is written by me, and I don't refer to myself in the third person. 

 

Parts of this website are password protected for copyright reasons and also to provide security to ideas, views, and artists, since owing to my international nature I contradictorily have to limit my freedom of expression. 

 

That does not however change any of my beliefs, particularly those concerning basic human rights. 

 

You may request the password via the contact form on the contact page if you'd like to view any specific material, and also, not everything will remain password protected at all times, so feel free to come back whenever.

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This is both a playful and serious space. There are very few rules. Everything here is a work-in-progress. Nothing is ever complete. I like to be able to laugh at myself, and create things that may be profound, embarrassing, provocative, or even just plain silly. I like to revisit things and change them, improve them, recreate them, and allow them to guide me.

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All versions of myself exist here, and I hope you'll allow all versions of yourself to exist here, too.

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Welcome to our studio. 

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About me:

I was born near Kolkata, India with the name Shreya Chatterjee and changed it when I turned 21. I call myself Shreya Tanisha because Tanisha is my 'daak naam,' a name given to most Bengalis, which is like a nickname or actually a middle name, but it is not legalised. 

 

I decided to replace my last name with it because my last name is an indicator of the caste system, which I am vehemently against. I was raised to respect all religions, within reason, and personally I am agnostic. 

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Shreya Tanisha is now my stage and screen name.

 

When I was a one-year-old I lived in Kolkata, India and various other cities in West Bengal, until moving to New Delhi where I began my education. When I was four years old, my family moved to Singapore, and then when I was ten we moved to Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. When I turned twelve we moved to The Netherlands, near The Hague, to a town called Wassenaar, and after a few years, I decided to go to a boarding school in Wales, Llantwit Major. I subsequently lived in London, Wimbledon and Edinburgh, Scotland for University, moving back and forth between the two. After graduating, I spent some time back in India, and then returned to London for my postgraduate degree and lived there, again in Wimbledon, for the following years, eventually moving to Virginia Water, Surrey. I also spent some of my time in Cambridge for further study.

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As of 2022 I live in The Pearl, Doha, Qatar, various cities in India, mainly Kolkata & Goa, and Britain, predominantly Cambridge & London.

 

And as of 2024 I will once again be living in Edinburgh, to satisfy my thespian heart, finish my arts & academic research, since the city is a little more lively than Cambridge but not as hectic as London, and because it's so beautiful and special to me.

 

And from 2025 I once again began living in London, but this time in an area very close to my heart as it's where I began going to art school: it's next to a place called the Castle Cinema, which reminds me of my time in Wales. I decided that Virginia Water, and even Wimbledon, would be too faraway from the heart of London, which is where I thought I should be this time. However, unfortunately, my time on Chatsworth Road was cut short due to my ongoing mental health crisis, which I have had no choice but to undergo intense treatment for.

 

So I am back in Doha for the foreseeable future, back on The Pearl, and in continued therapy for Bipolar Disorder I.

 

Bipolar I is the more severe of the two (Bipolar I and Bipolar 2, just my luck). And it is exhausting. This illness has defined and debilitated my life in ways that geography can't explain, much like the global pandemic we all went through, and it has meant I have not been able to remain in one place for very long.

 

I live everywhere.

 

And I mention all the places where I live specifically simply because there are people who need this information to locate me, and also because for travel purposes having this brief chronology is helpful. I understand it may seem like too much information, but it is information that I need to keep a record of and have easy access to for myself and those who know me. Now you kind of know me.

 

So it's safe to say that since I've lived in and traveled to various different places I don't think of one place as home. I have always felt like a nomad and I believe in being a global citizen, which some may consider a utopian aspiration in today's world, but which I hope will one day become a part of our collective consciousness and how we understand our reality.

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It won't be easy and it will never be perfect but I believe with all my heart that fighting for it together will always be extraordinarily beautiful.

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I'm an artist.

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