From my Verandah - I
About the Artwork
| Medium : | Graphite and watercolour on paper |
| Size : | 14" x 11" |
| Provenance: | The Artist, courtesy Gallery Espace, New Delhi |
About the Artist
Dr. Paula Sengupta is an artist, academic, curator, and art writer. She is Professor at the Department of Graphics-Printmaking at the Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, and Secretary of the artist’s initiative, Khoj Kolkata. She is author of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking published by the Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2012 and Foreign & Indigenous Influences in Indian Printmaking published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany in 2013. Trained as a printmaker, Paula’s repertoire as an artist includes broadsheets, artist’s books, objects, installation, and community art projects. She works across mediums that include printmaking, textiles and embroidery, papermaking, and much else. She is widely exhibited in India and abroad. Her curatorial projects include the landmark exhibition Trajectories: 19th-21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan for the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE in 2014; six editions of The Printed Picture: Four Centuries of Indian Printmaking for DAG MODERN, India from 2012-18; Popular Prints and the Freedom Struggle at the Drishyakala Museum, Red Fort, Delhi in 2019; and Ghare Baire - The Home, the World, and Beyond at Old Currency Building, Kolkata.
