ALAMU KUMARESAN
Born in 1983, Alamu Kumaresan earned a Masters in Fine Arts in painting from Madras University, Government College of Fine Arts in 2007. She has participated in the Korea Golden Jubliee of Inko, International exchange exhibition at Busan, Korea, 2023;'Confluence' Chennai Biennale 2024 organised by INKO Centre at Lalit Kala Akademi, 2024. Having been an art facilitator has provided her with an intensive work experience with young minds. Her works are in the form of intricate patterns and textures woven with fabric, thread, Yarn, embroidery and paint. She believes in creating works that transcend the viewer to a tranquil, observing and aware state which acts as a mirror to see the moment for itself and to reflect one's inner nature. She draws inspiration from diversity and uniqueness in the people she meets, from whom she claims, there is always much to listen, watch, learn, understand and be inspired by. She interprets nature through its many varied forms and intricacies, enticed by its textures, and finding fulfillment in her works finding expression through it. The artist lives and works in Chennai.
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ARUSHEE SURI
Arushee Suri received an MFA from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts, London, and a BFA from the College of Art, New Delhi, India. She is an artist and educator who has taught printmaking to underprivileged adults in New Delhi and learning-disabled young adults in London. Arushee has mentored residencies for the Printmaking Foundation of India in 2018 and 2019. Her interactive installations, paintings, drawings, embroidery, and sculptures have been presented in curated, group gallery and museum exhibitions in the UK, India, Singapore, Italy, the US, and Greece. Exhibition venues include Gallery Rosenfeld: London, Gillman Barracks: Singapore, State Museum of Contemporary Art: Greece, Matts Gallery: London, New Art Exchange: Nottingham, OXO Tower: London, Croydon College: London, Bomb Factory: London, Print Club Delhi: India, Printmaking Foundation of India: India, and Brooklyn Art Library: USA. Arushee has recently been awarded the East London Printmakers Residency 2023. Arushee's work is in permanent collections at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; Gallery Rosenfeld, London; Printmaking Foundation of India, India; Brooklyn Art Library, USA. Arushee's practice is multi-sensory, and she currently uses various materials and media to evoke the five senses through her evocative installations and site-specific works.
ARVIND SUNDAR
Arvind Sundar (b. 1993) received his MFA degree in painting and drawing from the School of Art, University of Cincinnati, 2018, which he completed post a Prior Degree Course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016. He was also awarded the Presidential Scholarship of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for 2015. A recipient of the Wolstein travel fellowship for 2017, Arvind then travelled across Italy to study Renaissance painting and sculpture. Arvind's conceptual work revolves around the idea of play and a lightness of being. He works with concepts related to geometry, grids, and mathematics to arrive at kinetic compositions reflecting spiritual and physical connectedness to mathematical and geometrical systems. He has participated in over fifty exhibitions, including at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Cincinnati, 2018; Homage to Hassan Sharif, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE, 2017; Everything will work out: two-person show, Divisible Artist Collective, Dayton, 2017; Locus Pocus: Paintings by Peter Shear and Arvind Sundar, 840 Gallery, Cincinnati, 2018; A6 Mural Project, Netherlands, 2020. Over 2023–2024, Arvind has had a solo exhibition, Blueprints for Impossible Structures, exhibited at the Busan Art Fair, BEXCO, and in an Indo-Korean exhibition at Jeju Islands in 2023. His work was shown at the Chennai Biennale. He was artist-in-residence at Hampi Art Labs.
GULER ATES
Born in 1977 in Mus, Eastern Turkey, Güler Ates lives and works in the UK. She graduated in 2008 from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Fine Art. She is currently a Print Tutor at the Royal Academy Schools. Güler Ates' multidisciplinary work encompasses video, photography, printmaking, and performance, through which she explores her experience of identity, diaspora and cultural displacement. Her artworks can be found in the UK's Government Art Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum in London; the Oude Kerk, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, and the Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam; the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) in Rio de Janeiro; and the Museum of Oriental Art in Turin. Ates has undertaken solo exhibitions at the Anupa Mehta Arts in December 2022; at the Museum of Oriental Art, Turin in 2020; at Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam in 2017; at the Unseen Photo Festival, Amsterdam, London in 2016; Spazio Nea, Naples in 2015; at Marcelle Joseph Projects, London; Instituto Inclusartiz, Rio de Janeiro in 2014; at Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam and at the Royal Academy of Arts' Café Gallery, London in 2013; at The Loft, Lower Parel, Mumbai in 2012.
RITESH AJMERI
Ritesh Ajmeri earned a BFA in Sculpture from M.S University, Baroda, India in 2003 and an MFA in Sculpture from M.S University, Baroda, India in 2005. He has participated in several exhibitions including the Baroda March, CSMVS, Mumbai, India,2017; Salon Video 1, ALERT studio, Bucharest, Romania, 2012; From Our Cabinet To Museum, Open Eye Dreams, Cochin, India, 2009; Concurrence, West gallery, Manila, Philippines, 2014. He has received awards at the HOM Art Trans, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2013; Open space Bae, Busan Korea, 2010; Asia pacific fellowship Artist- in- Residence, Goyang artist studio, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. He received the 2008 INLAKS Foundation Scholarship for young artist. He has taught and held talks at multiple institutions including the National Artist Studio, Goyang, Korea 2010; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and Open Space Bae, Busan, Korea among others. Ritesh Ajmeri lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.
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RAVI JOSHI
Ravi Joshi (b. 1981) hails from the coastal town of Porbandar, Gujarat. He pursued painting while exposed to images in his family run photography studio, where sitters often came to get their portraits made. The black-and-white photographs were often rendered colourful by applying transparent coloured ink. Firm critique on his early drawings came from his grandfather, who had a penchant for touching up black and white negatives with a finely sharpened graphite tip. A blurring of distinction between a face, portraiture, a body, and the landscape has remained his preoccupation. The coastal Kathiyawar region and its undulating terrain punctuate his recent paintings as the artist recalls the mangroves, swamps and hills of the region. He seeks to establish an alterity in the image while painting. Ravi's work was introduced in 2009 by Anupa Mehta under THE LOFT at Lower Parel. His first solo comprised twelve paintings of faces titled Man in a Movie Hall, Video Tape Memories, Death of a Bee, and other gestural constructs as faces. Since then, he has held four solo shows at Anupa Mehta Arts, Mumbai; Gallery OED- Cochin- Kerala; and Amdavad ni Gufa,' Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Ravi Joshi lives and works in Ahmedabad.
SARIKA BAJAJ
Sarika Bajaj's work investigates and highlights the multidimensional aspects of people's relationship with nature. Her recent body of work includes the use of bird feathers, emphasizing the environmental threat the species faces in a rapidly urbanized world. She employs repetitive and labour-intensive techniques such as sewing, knotting, twisting, ravelling and unravelling to generate forms of distinct symbolism. The artist attributes her use of feathers to the place birds have in mythology and their ritual presence in Indigenous cultures around the world. Sarika Bajaj (b. 1976, Ghaziabad, India) completed her Bachelor's in Fine Arts in painting at Rachna Sansad, Mumbai, in 2009. The artist has participated in group exhibitions which include All of the Sky, CSMVS, 2022; IAF 2022 and 2023; Transit, Bikaner House, New Delhi, 2021, curated by Lina Vincent; Homage, AMAA, Mumbai 2018; Vocabularies, Art Positive, Delhi, 2018; A Thing of Beauty, The Loft, Mumbai, 2016; Kashish Art Festival, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai, 2015; India's Reflections, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, 2011. Sarika Bajaj has participated in the India Art Fair 2012, the Kunst Art Fair, Zurich 2011, and Scope Basel 2011. Her solo show titled Flight, was curated by Anupa Mehta at THE LOFT at Lower Parel in 2017. She lives and works in Mumbai.
SUZANNE MOXHAY
Suzanne Moxhay (b. 1976, Essex) lives and works in London. Her unique work explores the boundaries between inside and outside and between nature and the artificial through the blending of a fictitious imaginary space and a photographed 'real' space, resulting in surreal and dramatic tableaus. Inspired by early film-making techniques, Suzanne has a diverse and eclectic art practice that encompasses model making, painting, photography and animation. Suzzane is a graduate of the Royal Academy Schools, UK, Suzanne has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, since 2002. Suzanne’s work is held in many significant public and private collections, including at The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, the University of the Arts Collection, the FSC, the Lodeveans Collection and Oxford University, UK. Suzanne Moxhay has participated in several exhibitions globally, including 'GSK Contemporary: Earth Art of a Changing World' and 'Constructed Landscapes' at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, START Art Fair with THE LOFT at Lower Parel and 'Abstract: Reality' at the Saatchi Gallery, London, 'Human Made Things' at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth and 'Modell-Naturen' which toured public galleries in Germany throughout 2019. To date, Suzanne Moxhay has had three prints commissioned and published by the Royal Academy of Arts. Check her website for more details.
