With greater than 40 works on show, Thooriga The 4th Collective Exhibit 2024, a brand new artwork present to be unveiled this weekend in Hyderabad, has a large canvas. ‘Thooriga’, that means ‘paintbrush’ in Tamil showcases the works of 5 Chennai-based artists — Charanya Rajesh, Gayathri Balaji, Sathya N Prabhu, Yamuna Bala and Subhashree Sridhar, for the primary time in Hyderabad.
The ladies as a workforce had earlier had reveals at Artworld Sarala’s Artwork Centre and Taj Vivanta in Chennai and Auroville, Pondicherry. The Hyderabad exhibition is their ‘4th exhibit’
Celebrating womanhood
Charanya Rajesh
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Impressed by realism, Charanya Rajesh likes to color portraits and figuratives. Her 9 works in oil pastels rejoice womanhood and spotlight the bond ladies share with Nature, wildlife within the Indian cultural context. “I prefer to painting completely different elements of womanhood — their braveness, kindness, internal energy, and sweetness via artwork,” she says.
The artist additionally pays tribute to Madurai, her hometown in Devotion, a portray depicting a Tamil lady in a conventional sari with a parrot. Charnaya calls the girl Meenakshi, a type of Goddess Paravati and explains, “The girl is in love with Lord Shiva and longs for Him.”
Impressed by sculptures
A piece by Gayathri Balaji
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Gayathri Balaji’s works in acrylic and blended media narrate tales of the marvels of Indian temple structure. On selecting sculptures in temples as topics of her work, she says, “I’ve all the time been fascinated by sculptures, particularly the magnificent Belur sculptures; one wonders how these stone sculptures had been created so many centuries in the past with no trendy sculpting instruments and tools.” The artist recreates the stone impact with textures in ‘Swapna Sundari’ to depict the great thing about a girl coyly a mirror.
Gayathri Balaji
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Captivated with artwork, she tries completely different mediums and performs with colors to discover the artscape. When not portray, she travels and takes images to make use of as reference for her work.
Previous world attraction
A piece by Sathya N Prabhu
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Tamil Nadu’s wealthy traditions affect artist Sathya N Prabhu who blends modern and conventional kinds in her eight acrylic work. Adept at dealing with completely different mediums and printmaking, the artist captures the essence of Indian tradition and epics.
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Sathya attracts inspiration from childhood, and her works have a look at how historical temples served as focal factors for financial actions creating job alternatives for artisans similar to potters, weavers, garland makers, dancers and musicians who participated in rites, rituals and festivals of the temple. “My work painting occasions of the outdated instances that I generally don’t see now,” she says.
Artwork as an expression
A piece by Yamuna Bala
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With a background in psychology, Yamuna Bala’s work relate to a person’s inward journeyl. “Artwork has been a manner of expression. When life places me in complicated conditions, I take advantage of artwork to talk. Issues I couldn’t specific as a girl are expressed via artwork.”
Yamuna Bala
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Yamuna is impressed by life and experiences, Yamuna says, “Something that reaches deep into my ideas and impacts the core is portrayed in my work. Kadhai kadhaiyungal, her current work is an emotional one completed after her father’s demise in 2023. The portray, she says is an try and go on the legacy to the following era. “My father was a tremendous story teller who transported me to a different world together with his narration. The tales enriched my vocabulary and triggered my creativeness. I started to see life from a special perspective and revered the angle of others too.” In addition to portray, Tamuna has additionally completed an expert pottery course, and has some expertise in sculpting.
Ode to simplicity
Subhashree Sridhar
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“My work is impressed from journey experiences and attracts from tradition and way of life as skilled by me,” says Subhashree Sridhar, who’s displaying eight oil work within the present. An artist, graphic designer and illustrator, she is pursuing a grasp’s diploma in illustration at Falmouth College in England, Subhashree is impressed by the colorful temple gopurams, its intricate structure and the simplicity of road scenes encountered throughout her temple visits and metropolis explorations.
Subhashree Sridhar
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“The work doc my notion and reflections of those heritage icons and buildings in a consultant method.” In addition to portray, she additionally enjoys creating digital ebook illustrations, linoprinting and collage making for her sketchbook works.
Thooriga The 4th Collective Exhibit 2024 is on at State Artwork Gallery, Kavuri Hills between August 9 to 14; 11am to 7 pm
