Sanchita Islam (28 April 1973 – 3 July 2023) was an English artist, painter, writer and filmmaker of Bangladeshi descent.
[5] In February 1998, she completed an MA in Directing and Screenwriting sponsored by Channel 4 at the Northern Media School at Sheffield Hallam University.
[8] She has directed and/or produced 15 films,[10] and screened her work in London, New York, Bangladesh, Kuala Lumpur, Rome, India, Brussels, Pakistan, Frankfurt,[6] Her films and books, which combine text and drawings, have been funded by the Arts Council, BBC, British Council[9] and Commonwealth Institute.
She was also artist in resident at Artscape and Shoreditch House and her art features in various venues around London such as Sketch, Mark Hix's restaurant and she was commissioned to do over one hundred paintings for Clifton Hotel Group in Bristol.
KAOS (TrActor's sister organisation) awarded her a grant to complete the second scroll project with patients suffering from mental health problems in Brussels 2014.
[13] Rich Mix has invited Pigment Explosion again to exhibit this second scroll and write/perform a play about art, madness and disability, the show is scheduled in June 2015.
[14] In January 2015, Muswell Hill Press published her new book, written under the pseudonym Q.S Lam, Schizophrenics Can Be Good Mothers Too.