Hansika Jethnani is a poet, visual artist, writer, and empowerment mentor.

Her creative practice moves across mediums; zines, illustrations, painting, photography, and the written word, exploring themes of colonialism, migration, ancestral memory, queerness, body image, shame, and the ongoing process of unlearning and healing. Her practice is both personal and political, a tender weaving of lived stories and emotions residing within her heart.

Her poems have been published in multiple anthologies and publications, and her zines have been awarded by Bombay Underground and Bazinega.

She was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and spent her early years there before moving to Shanghai, China at thirteen. At seventeen, she moved to London, United Kingdom and by twenty-three, she found herself in India—first in Mumbai, where she lived for nearly four years, before making Goa her home between 2022 and 2026. Currently, she is living between Bangalore and Jakarta, while venturing a nomadic journey in transit, as she explores newer parts of the world unseen to her eyes.

Being part of the South Asian diaspora deeply shapes her practice; themes of movement, culture and belonging are woven throughout her work. During her tenure as Education Officer at University of the Arts London Students' Union between 2016 and 2018, she co-founded the Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine. She has always been passionate about dismantling oppressive structures institutionalised within wider society.

Her visual art practice has always leaned towards abstraction, often embracing experimentation with form, texture, and materiality. Much of her process is about surrender; allowing the artwork to unfold intuitively, letting the elements intervene, and trusting what wants to emerge. She considers herself a mediator between the piece and the forces that shape it. Deeply inspired by the natural world, she often works with nature-based materials and themes as well, finding resonance in organic forms and cycles.

Currently, she is developing a mixed media series centered around the yoni; both as symbol and source. This ongoing body of work draws connections between the yoni, the Earth, and the sacred power of creation. Through clay, paint, and found natural materials, she explores the yoni as origin, portal, and memory; honoring its place in personal healing and collective remembering. She completed her BA (Hons) in Photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, in 2016. She has also been mentored in creative writing through programmes with Apples & Snakes and Poetry Plant Project. Painting, on the other hand, has been a self-taught and intuitive extension of her creative practice.

When she lived in Goa, she found herself delving deeper into her healing journey through somatic-led modalities. This impacted her being very deeply… while simultaneously, a newer pathway began to form - one of holding spaces of healing for others. Looking back, she realises this ‘newer’ pathway - wasn’t fully new. Her mum initiated her into Reiki at 17, yet in 2023 when she completed her Breathwork TTC, this pathway opened up very deeply.

Over the years as her journey deepened, she came into deeper contact with her ancestral lineage and discovered their roots in Sufi Mysticism. She holds spaces of healing, transformation and empowerment through the guidance of their wisdom, the depth of her own journey and the modalities she has been trained in. She is also the founder of Taqat, a collective and social enterprise devoted to building a world living in harmony with Mother Earth once again.