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Kantha Productions LLC’s project on Surayia Rahman’s life and her art has gone live on the Internet today. Their website is up and running, though still in the creation stages. A work-in-progress, with a lot more information and photographs to be added in due time. Do look often, for new content will be added! A [...]

A friend has been involved in a documentary project on the life-story of Bangladesh artist and personality Surayia Rahman – requiring some photographs of Surayia, her art and wonderfully intricate Nakshi Kantha tapestries, photos of the women who embroider the Nakshi Kantha, and other visuals of people associated or who were associated with Surayia. I [...]

Started out with a “Friday Afternoon Art Fair” at AIS-D…
  
  
….then to view an exhibition by 11 artists [which includes a couple of friends: Ujwalaand Ashit] who have put up their prints for all to view after a Print Making workshop – the exhibition is called “Mechanical Fantasy” at Britto…
   
   
   
 
.. and finally to Dhaka University’s Jagannath [...]

Art by Smita Srivastava at a joint India-Bangladesh exhibition at the Chitrak Art Gallery in Dhanmondi Dhaka in January 2009. Some nice new pieces of work!
 
Here is a detail from this painting – I love the “landscape-like” feel…
 
Great exhibition, enjoyed viewing all the artwork from all 11 artists who participated.

Children from USTAV School Dhaka visit Radius Gallery to view the “Jhaal Muri” exhibition, and they all seem to have had a wonderful time. We asked them which pictures were their favourites – very diplomatically they said “ALL”! Apparently they then all sat on the floor and recited poetry and did a few dances, I [...]

Jhaal Muri artwork on diaplay at Radius Center gallery, the exhibition opened on 8th November.
Here is a catalog of the work by the artists, Kuhu, Rokeya, Smita and Ujwala. This is an incomplete listing, more to be added as soon as I get back to Dhaka and can photograph / upload the rest.
KUHU
   
 
ROKEYA
  
SMITA
       
UJWALA
           
ANIL [some of [...]

The Hanging….
As terrible as that sounds, it is not that terrible at all!
Except that it did take the mickey out of us getting the sequencing, spacing and positioning the way we wanted it to be. No compromizes. The artwork was hung and taken down 3 times before we got the right look we were after. [...]

An art exhibition of drawings and paintings by

A lovely drizzly holiday day… just perfect for a drive out to the Institute of Fine Arts after a couple of drinks and a spicy hot South Indian lunch!
 
…and then to enjoy the artwork displayed at one of the 3 venues [Shilpakala Academy] of the 13th Asian Arts Biennial being held at Dhaka. The exhibition [...]

Artist friend Rokeya Sultana [she is a Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts as well] asked me to photograph the 7 day Printmaking Workshop proceedings at the Institute of Fine Arts Dhaka University  organized by The Bengal Foundation during 18th to 24th May 2008.  Visiting Professors Nirmalendu Das and Pinaki Barua of Vishwa Bharati headed the the [...]