Akara Art

BHAGYASHREE SUTHAR

Akara Contemporary

1991

Bhagyashree Suthar’s works have been heavily influenced by architecture and geometric patterns in nature, which pose as a reflection of herself. She applies meticulous detail in her work, often submerging herself into the world she attempts to depict. She illustrates Utopian, fantastical worlds through her beeswax sculptures, drawings, and wax paintings. Suthar depicts the beauty of silence in her works through the interplay between light and shadows. She works largely with kite paper, Rajasthani wasli paper, and beeswax.

Bhagyashree’s forms oscillate between the man-made and the biological, yet, not quite bionic. The focus of her works is decidedly on architectural forms rather than spaces. Her forms seem suspended and weighty, like granite in the sky; there is a sense of something that has taken flight but is yet to escape into space, out of orbit. It is architecture caught reflecting upon itself.

As an artist represented by Akara, a couple of Bhagyashree’s solo shows include ‘Fields of Eros and Enchantment’, 2020 and ‘Fractal Future’, 2016. She has been a part of various group shows, including ‘Let Me Tell You A Story…Part I’, Curated by Luiza Teixeira De Freitas, Akara Contemporary, 2023, ‘Memories Arrested In Space’, 2021, and ‘Approaching Land’ curated by Girish Shahane, 2017. Her work has been commissioned by the Lalbhai family, founder of Arvind Ltd. At the Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum in Ahmedebad and has been featured in the book, ‘Vitamin D3: Today’s Best In Contemporary Drawing’ published by Phaidon press, United Kingdom.

Bhagyashree Suthar was born and brought up in Jodhpur, Rajasthan in a family of furniture-makers. She moved to Vadodara, Gujarat to attain her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Art from the reputed Maharaja Sayajirao University. She won a gold medal in her Masters in Visual Arts in 2016.

The artist lives and works in Vadodara.

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