Poojan Gupta (b. 1998, India) is an artist whose practice centres on discarded pharmaceutical blister packs, transforming an overlooked material of everyday life into large-scale sculptures and installations. Since 2019, Gupta has collected approximately 550,000 discarded packs, developing an ongoing material investigation into care, healing, ritual, and waste.

For Gupta, the empty blister pack carries more than the trace of a consumed medicine. Each punctured pocket marks a moment when the body, illness, and the hope of healing were briefly held together. Through accumulation, assemblage, and meticulous handwork, these disposable objects acquire a new material and symbolic significance.

Her practice draws on Hindu ritual traditions, sacred philosophy and beliefs, particularly devotional exploring how ordinary acts such as taking medicine can take on spiritual and emotional dimensions. Gupta’s work brings contemporary concerns around pharmaceutical waste into dialogue under questions of belief, care, and the ways quotidian objects can shape our understanding of everyday experience.

Gupta is a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS), London, and an Associate Artist at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford.