We are delighted to invite you to a special Women's Day Saree Edit featuring collections from Aasmani, Joy Bimal Roy and Karomi.

8-12 March 2023 | 11AM-7PM

Plus a Saree Draping and Styling Workshop with Saree Sakhiyaan on Saturday 11 March 2023 | 4-6PM

Register now. Limited spots available!

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Traditional lacquerware from Japan is simple, graphic, almost stark. It is not just a luxury collectible, but demands use, inviting you to touch, to hold, to cup, to sip... The gleam of reflected light off a lacquered surface calls to the soul in search of stillness, and timelessness.

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ASSEMBLAGE by Siddharth Sadashiv

Sadashiv’s show begins with compositions found through his photographic lens, and interprets them with found textures into “an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.”

Siddharth’s abstract works are a confluence of visual aesthetics and intricate artistry which stands out as a contemplative work of art.

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TREASURED HEIRLOOMS
Indian Chintzes in the Netherlands

Talk by Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis


Art Historian and former Curator of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

6pm | 3 February 2023

Held in conjunction with the Exhibition WHEN INDIAN FLOWERS BLOOMED IN DISTANCE LANDS at CSMVS

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As a student photographer, Dayanita Singh travelled during six winters, in the Eighties, with the musician, Zakir Hussain, and his peers, photographing them for a publication design project that became her first book in 1986. In the light of her later books, this early work shows how bringing together word and image - sequencing photographs with accompanying text into a book - had been her natural tendency from the very beginning of her life as an artist. 

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"My work is rooted in the surreal and the fantastic. It is influence by my background in architecture, my interest in music, especially jazz, and my experience of various cultures, East and West. My intent is to produce images which evoke wonder, surprise and amusement." 

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Japanese designer Ryoko Haraguchi returns to ARTISANS’. Her avant garde design integrates Indian weaving and stitch work with traditional Japanese dyeing techniques.

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Who could have predicted that a birthday gift of a Brownie camera would set Manobina Roy on the path to becoming a celebrated photographer?  Continue reading

The handicrafts sector is the second largest employment generator in India, providing employment to more than 7.3 million people, and according to the national census of handicrafts, the Indian handicrafts industry is a billion industry [worldwide] and contributes 2% of the global market. According to the UN, over the past 30 years, the number of Indian artisans has decreased by 30%. Continue reading