"The Quilt" by Shrutika Gosavi

Shrutika Gosavi (b.1987, India) is an internationally multi-awarded artist living in Dubai, UAE since 2011. Her latest achievements are, her selection by the Sikka Art Festival Dubai Culture 19-2020 committee to participate with her series of artworks ‘The Leftover’ as well as awarded with ‘Rove Emerging Artist Prize 2020’ at World Art Dubai UAE. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Golden cultural visa Dubai.

Shrutika’s art is intuitive as well inspired by the human body, nature, spirituality, identity and perception matters. Her observations and experiences of her surrounding environment contribute to the development of a series of works, where she processes the significance of the external world to the human behavior and body.

Shrutika grow up in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, where she completed her Masters in Visual Arts (Painting) at the Government University of Raja Mansingh Tomar Music and Art. She received the Young Artist Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and received the prestigious State Artist award. After working as a lecturer for a year, she moved to Dubai and opened her studio in 2012 dedicated herself in her art practice

"What attracts me is human gestures, body, expressions and emotions, unsophisticated way of sitting, lying, and standing, stiffness of finger and toes. With physicality, inherent expressions, personality traits, nature, identity, gender discrimination, memories and spirituality also captivate me. These elements are in my subconscious and come up according to my mood and thoughts while painting.

My work is intuitive. Sometimes I use my memories, past events, time and space in my work. The whole process goes through a lots of layers of thoughts and treatment of pigments and different materials, formation and distortion of forms and space. I like to play around with lines and different textures. I also use symbolism and surrealistic elements. The work is always encoded with messages and stories"