Anika Alamin is a London-based Bangladeshi textile artist who specialises in weaving using traditional weaving techniques and dyeing practices. Her inspiration comes from the Jamdani weaving tradition, which has been passed down for many generations in small villages on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Alamin undertook a residency in 2025 with a Jamdani weaving community in Sonargaon, Bangladesh, which was co-funded by the Visual Arts Project Fund of the Goethe Institut.

She has received the William Callaway Scholarship (2023) for her studies at Chelsea College of Art, UAL. Her final work at Chelsea has won the UAL Justice Awards (2024). Selected group exhibitions include the AMPP Studio (Ipswich), Chelsea College of Arts (London), The Good Rice Gallery (London), Morley Gallery (London), Subkontinent (Berlin), and Shala Neighbourhood Art Space (Dhaka).

She adopts an abstract approach to the traditional technique and experiments with yarns of different qualities. Using the warp as her canvas, she explores this technique as a way to connect with her culture, while also raising awareness of a time-honoured craft at risk of being lost.

Employing Bangladeshi indigo into her woven artworks becomes a way to address the complexities of the cultivation of indigo in Bengal during British Colonial Rule. Indigo and other natural dyes are central to her practice, imbuing her work with layers of colour and cultural memory.

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