Artists in Residence 2014-15

	Lee Fullarton Australia 31st October 2014-12th December 2014 The initial works of the artist include sketches, prints, observations and journal works of personal responses to the museums and surrounds of Sanskriti that resonate with the artist. This begins the process for development of ideas and concepts that will be composed into larger works that will be completed during 2015.
	Miranda Free Australia 31st October 2014-12th December 2014 Miranda Free is a representational artist who comes from Perth Australia. While residing at Sanskriti she is developing works that are about differing roles that women choose for their lives - she will undertake drawings, painted studies of people, backgrounds and objects that are significant for the subjects. She will collage these images to develop large works in oils and plans three while here - Lee (a collaborating artist colleague) as Art Warrior, Sangita who works in Sanskriti office, and an Indian village woman who cooks at Sanskriti.
	Jarred Pruis Helpman Academy Artists Australia 17th October 2014 – 30th November 2014 Jarred Pruis “I work mostly in clay. Spending time in India I have began to investigate traditional Indian art and art practices, the ritual object, myth and spirituality whilst drawing from dreams and imaginings.”
	Genevieve Dawson-Scott Helpman Academy Artists Australia 17th October 2014 – 30th November 2014 Genevieve Dawson-Scott is an emerging artist interested in the relationships between ‘prayer and play’, ‘meditation and making’. In her work during the Sanskriti Residency she continues to explore ideas of how an artwork or object may embody a sense of spirit, and possess power.
	Lucy Palmer Helpman Academy Artists Australia 17th October 2014 – 30th November 2014 The horizon implies the infinite. It divides and it holds together. It is a seam, separating earth and sky, material and immaterial. An uninterrupted, continuous horizon gives a sense of the ineffable, the infinite and the utterly incredible potential of distance and space. This vast emptiness offers the mind the freedom to escape. Here is where the distinction between self and space blur. “Through the medium of glass, I investigate the relationship between vast, open spaces and the mind. India is the stark opposite to the environment explained above. Overcrowded, dense, bright, noisy and cluttered. Here a person is granted no space. Some thrive in these environments, the big cities, the speed, the thrills, the constant excitement. Colour exploding from every corner. Fireworks, street parties, horns and never ending drama… I love this too, but for me, being here has intensified the appreciation I have for the choice of space. The space I am granted in Australia, where I can chose to switch all of this off and inhabit a space where from one horizon to the other, there is just me… Since arriving here I have learnt a lot about myself and my need for space; physical, emotional and mental. It has become very obvious why meditation and mindfulness practices are so valued, as these are important tools in achieving a clear mental space in such a crowded space. To remove the physicality is to remove the chaos. I learn more about this each day…”
	Nick Hanisch Helpman Academy Artists Australia 17th October 2014 – 30th November 2014 My works are investigations of narrative tropes and imaginary worlds. Currently I am fascinated by the combined mash of old and new in the Indian landscape. The way ancient architecture is bandaged with hi tech satellites and electronics. Holy symbols of every religion hang next to Vodafone advertising. Cows graze in front of a Lamborghini shop. This constant clashing reminds me of dystopian fictions of a society rebuilding where it's habitations merge with the natural landscape.
	Vicki McConville Australia 28th September 2014 – 27th November 2014 Vicki McConville works with print, projections, constructions and sound. Her work investigates trade, travel and the transformation of images and ideas. As a PhD (Studio Research) candidate, she has been an Artist in Resident in Venice, Istanbul, Beijing and Delhi. She is currently a Prime Minister’s Australia-Asia Award Scholar.
	Amanda Melo da Mota Brazil 5th Dec. 2014 - 5th Feb. 2015 Amanda was sponsored by the Embassy of Brazil and is the second artist to visit Sanskriti. As a visual artist she does photography, sculpture and videography. Her project at Sanskriti revolved around “Confinement”. She visited local artists living in far flung pockets of Delhi to learn the folk arts and visited the potters colony to enrich her knowledge about terracotta. She learnt massage therapy as part of her project in India and developed a series of terracotta hearts as headgears. She was inspired by the old city of Delhi and worked with old and used things to include in her project. She did a public project at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, dressed in an outfit made of “Ghungroo” during the protest staged by Delhi Govt. against Center Govt.’s Land Acquisition Bill. A She went for Vipasna for meditation.
	Leonardo Sanchez Colombia During my stay at Sanskriti I worked on the Modular Light Projector. I designed an interactive modular object to project light from inside. The light is projected through four modules with orifices on it. These modules can be rotated horizontally modifying the direction of the light and changing the appearance of the object. The inspiration for the same came from the importance of lamps and masks in India especially during the festivals and religious rituals. Lamps are important in lighting homes and masks represent the Indian folklore full of myths and legends that are an integral part of the culture.
	Julie Wayne France Julie Wayne is a photographer from France who has spent over a decade researching and photographing the ritual practices of the ancient cult of Ayyanar in Tamil Nadu. Sanskriti Foundation and Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts collaborated in bringing together her work and organized an exhibition titled "From Earth to Earth" of over 100 photographs and live demonstrations at IGNCA which also saw a lecture by Prof. Gautam Sengupta and later the exhibition opened at Sanskriti Foundation with a Symposium organized on 'The Art of Terracotta in India: Historical and Living Traditions'.
	Yuni Kwon Republic of Korea 31st October 2014 – 31st December 2014 Yuni Kwon takes an interdisciplinary approach to her practice as an artist by constructing a bridge between personal, social and natural phenomena. Using a variety of media, such as video, data visualizations and site-specific installation, she creates an imaginary relationship between humans and nature, both together as well as separately. Based on the proposition that structure of nature and human spirit are connected with each other by mirror symmetry that is over individual asymmetry, the extensive meanings of the nature in humans and Nature and the relation between them are suggested through works. In the work, the state of the mind can be imagined, by considering the complexity of the mind and comparing it with natural phenomena. Digital media is one way of developing a beyond physical relationship with nature. Kwon creates a virtual environment that re-experiences nature by particular perspectives, transcending the sense of coexistence. Yuni Kwon has been awarded with the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary for Artists (2014) at Sanskriti Foundation, India.
	Ausra Kleizaite Lithuania 8th October 2014-30th October 2014 “I am showing three pieces of the series of drawings named “ Om WIND w “. This time it had happened like this that I am paying tribute to the people, who impressed, influenced, affected and touched my soul. In a visual way the serie is based on a portrait as a window to the world and as a window to the world of soul and spirit of a man. As it is going to happen that the series will consist of the drawings of people from India and people from Lithuania there is a thought about the identity too.”
	Monika Zaltauskaite Lithuania 8th October 2014-30th October 2014 “Care Sheet” Embroidery, jacquard weaving, wooden frame, rusts, nails. The artwork is based on a story about a burnt out church in Lithuania, the building fell, and only the sculpture of Jesus remained. I took a picture of his face and transformed it, weaved it in fabric. I found old frame in Sanskriti and installed this fabric into it with the thoughts of a new altar. The artwork “Care sheet” is like a sheet, which is vestured and protected. Textile and fabric for this reason is so important. Embroidery with the old nails and found objects in Sanskriti will become like time marks which were left and rust will go to the fabric deeper and deeper.
	Ricardo Lopes Portugal 1st September 2014 – 20th October 2014 Discovering the dimensions and diversity of India’s Terracota representations was something overwhelming. As a potter, I believe that is through that ancient knowledge and singularity that one should find its own plastic expression. In India, Terracota pottery remains alive as an active part of the present and I can only wish that i continues in the future. It is also my belief that it is the way to keep these traditions alive, not merely as things to admire from our past but also as technical and inspirational backgrounds to work within modern times. I was totally amazed with the Sanskriti environment and quality of the museums and library contents. The inspiration to developp this work grew after researching, asking, observing and understanding the particularities of if each region and each piece’s mening and aesthetics. These pieces represent my prespective of craftsmanship as a contemporary tool to both artistic develpment and heritage conciousness. All parts were thrown on the potter’s wheel and fired on the wood fired kiln with wood collected at Sanskriti.
	Mirjam Spoolder Netherlands 1st October 2014 – 31st December 2014 Mirjam Spoolders diverse experience in fashion, art and theater area, play an important role in her work. Spoolders collages drawn on motifs from fashion magazines, which are almost like a puzzle, first broken into parts and then reassembled in a new form. The collages are comparable with the draft own fictional collection on paper. Spoolder is interested in questions of identity and goes to the question of how we deal with fashion and respond to them. Similarly, the paper collages, the artist developed material, sewn sculptures that function as a performance garment as well as an artistic object.
	Sherry Wiggins USA 27th October 2014 – 19th November 2014 “In the project ‘Nasreen and I in Delhi’, I am engaging with the art making processes of 21- century abstract Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), by making my own 20 drawings and photographs and blog in dialogue with her body of work.
	Madhavi Kolte India 7th Feb. - 27th Feb. 2015 Madhavi is a self taught artist and a teacher and believes that all her thoughts as an artist are expressed through clay. Her work is best expressed in coiling technique creating sculptures. She is inspired by nature and creates a bridge between man and environment through her art. Her project “Melt Down” revolves around the recent landslides and human toll and natural calamities. Her work was exhibited in the Open House and she donated one of her works created during the residency to Sanskriti.
	Anindita Dutta Helpman Academy Artists Australia 17th October 2014 – 30th November 2014 Aninditta Dutta's art practice combines sculpture, performance, and installation as a way to express her thoughts. During her stay at Sanskriti she worked on her project/exhibition "Everything Ends and Every Thing Matters".
	Veronica Guzman Mexico 16th Feb. - 14th March 2015 Her project was titled “Flavor of Indian Culture” for which she has been touring India and photographing people from all walks of life. During the residency she did a series of portraits in oil on canvas capturing people from different walks of life which she exhibited at the Open House. Her trip to Pushkar triggered her desire to explore other parts of India as she was fascinated with the warmth, colours, clothing and the camel fair. Varanasi and Jaipur added further depth to her work as she could get a chance to interact with the local population.
	Susan Cheal Helpman Academy Artists Australia 17th October 2014 – 30th November 2014 Susan was interested in the techniques of traditional Indian dyeing, textiles design, block printing and produced a body of work that reflected this gained knowledge which will form a part of the solo show she intends to do in Dallas, Texas. While at Sanskriti, she created a body of work on paper along with an outdoor installation inspired by the indigenous techniques.
	Ismene King Greece 1st Feb. - 15th March 2015 Her project involves research and application of traditional textile making techniques with focus on natural dyeing using local plant species (resist dyeing, tie and dye and stitch resist etc.). She was provided links for various natural products used as dyes traditionally in India. She made use of natural dyeing in the creating of a large scale site specific installation based on the technical knowledge acquired during the residency and as a reflection of her experience of India and living in Delhi. She participated in the indigo dyeing workshop conducted by Yoshiko Wada from Japan which was a good learning experience for her.
	Tracy Featherstone Miami University Group - USA
	Denise Burge Miami University Group - USA
	Diane Kempler USA 1st Jan. - 10th Feb. 2015 Diane created a series of painted ceramic hands and forms during the period of her residency at Sanskriti. Her inspiration came from “Seeds” both land and sea plant species including microscopic organisms. Her style was unique involving painting the fired sculptures and mounting them on the wall which gave them a feel of living organisms. Her body of works shall be shown back home in the US.
	Peter Burke USA During the residency in New Delhi, Peter created a video work which explores his interest in the way acts of human kindness on the street can be animated and captured on film. He performs humorous actions on the street, such as dropping a briefcase, which will encourage audiences to participate. He gets videos filmed by a professional videographer in specific locations in commercial precincts where he is able to engage with the public on the street. The project explores his interest in the ways artists can creatively interrupt patterns of human behavior and highlight the way urban spaces are used and the way humans interact.