APRE Art House

CHHERING NEGI Chhering Negi was born in Kinnaur and graduated from Kala Bhavan Shantiniketan and Govt College of Art Chandigarh. He was recently awarded the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Op...

SANTANU HAZARIKA Hailing from the state of Assam, Santanu Hazarika is a multidisciplinary autodidact visual artist based in Mumbai. He dropped out of engineering to become the firs...

G REGHU G Reghu was born in Kerala and completed his art education in Sculpture, College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, Kerala. He began with stone as a medium, and his sensibility gained direction after his contact with Elizabeth and Laurie Baker...

MADHUR SEN Madhur Sen is the founder of Blue Turtle Studio based in New Delhi. She is a member of AIC IAC- International Academy of Ceramics; ICAA- Intern...

MANJOT KAUR Manjot Kaur’s drawings, paintings & time-based media attempt to decolonize both women's bodies & the sovereignty of ecology. Her works traverse speculative fiction, vis...

“With the excessive use of technology at their disposal, humans today have lost some vital connection with the other sentient beings and the environment at large.” - Ravi Chaurasiya. Ravi Chaurasiya was born in 1994 in New Delhi...

Pallav Chander completed his BFA from Birmingham City University in the UK. He is the recipient of the 2019 Junior Fellowship by the Indian Ministry of Culture. Pallav has participated in numerous group- shows across India and UK. He has had two solo shows, “Decoding A Dyslexic Mind” at Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi...

Ranjeet Singh (b. 1984 in Bihar, India ) holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), 2006 and a Master of Fine Arts (Painting), 2008, from the Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu Un...

Artist Statement As an artist, I am deeply interested in subtleties, like collecting objects. Keeping them with me, and finding an emotional connection with them gives me great sat...

Presently I am working on a series of charcoal drawings titled “A Promised Land” which is the result as well as a logical progression of my current engagement with art and ecology. The series drew inspiration from my reading of Pranay Lal’s Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent (2016). The book’s focus on sheer life force and exuberance stemming out of India’s natural history and the science behind life not only inspired me but also forced me to think deeply about the state of life on the planet. The title, therefore, is ironically suggestive of the way humankind is (mis)treating natural resources to fulfil its unbridled greed. The series across thirty or more drawings attempts to build an apocalyptic vision of life where the natural world and the animals who inhabit it bear the brunt of over-exploitation. The first out of the six drawings which are complete by now shows the dead root-like structure of a tree which looks fossilised and bears the expression of a dissatisfied creature which seems to be stranded on a lonely landscape. The second drawing is that of a neatly fleeced skeleton of a blue whale on a patch of land. The image brings to the forefront issues of poaching and illegal hunting of whales for commercial gains. The third drawing again deals with the same issue but this time the goriness of the misdeeds of humankind is in the shape of a decaying carcass of an elephant. It is half covered in decayed skin and half visible revealing the rib cage. The fourth drawing is a highly metaphorical one where a large pile of elephant tusks is seen neatly arranged and bears an uncanny resemblance with a human pyre. The fifth drawing is that of a synthetic net left on the landscape. The image is a telling account of the ill effects of fishing which results in bycatch thereby impacting the water beds...

John Berger states a line is not important because it records what we see, but because of what it will lead us on to see. He also adds that each mark we make on the surface is a stepping stone through...

John Berger states a line is not important because it records what we see, but because of what it will lead us on to see. He also adds that each mark we make on the surface is a stepping stone through...