Critical Narratives in Colour and Form

INDIA DUAL-SITE EXHIBITION HABITAT CENTRE RESIDENCY AND EXHIBITION - October 2012 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS, HYDERABAD – November 2012 As part of the India Habitat Centre centenary exhibition programme of International Artists, Plastic Propaganda has been asked to exhibit in this prestigious space, under the guidance and curatorial experience of international author and curator, Alke Pande. The exhibition will bring together artists from the University of Kent, UCA and Alumni to showcase their work in a new and exciting context. I will be making site specific work based around the relationship of my own practice during a 6-week residency in October and November working at the Sanskriti Foundation studios. The residency will be in collaboration with the Delhi National Museum who will give me full access to its plaster casting archive, so that I can create site specific work based on a cultural collaboration and an Anglo-Indian narrative, based on the colonial history and the art history from the Moghul empire. I will use my current themes in my practice such as the readymade and the use of rubbings and prints. The exhibition will then move to the College of Fine Arts at Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University. I will work with Prof Srinivas Reddy delivering lectures and workshops on painting. These exhibitions will have site specific work located against a portfolio of my practice from other exhibitions. The catalogue will be a series of artists’ interviews from students and staff from HPA, analysis of the use of colour and form as a descriptive narrative. In both Habitat and Hyderbad the exhibition will be accompanied by a series of workshops in critical writing, painting and sculpture.