Making Space:Sensing Place: Mata-ni-Pachedi

Making Space:Sensing Place

In October 2009, along with artist Thurle Wright, I was awarded a Making Space:Sensing Place Fellowship; part of the HAT: Here and There International Exchange Programme, managed by A Fine Line:Cultural Practice. The Fellowship includes residencies with Britto Arts in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with Arts Reverie in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, with The V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green, London and with The Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire. Working and collaborating with artists and craftspeople from the UK, Bangladesh and India, responding to the collections and spaces we encounter and sharing these experiences through a touring exhibition and educational workshops.

This blog, which is still developing and being added to, is a record of my experiences during the MS:SP Fellowship. Steven Follen.
www.stevenfollen.com

Friday, 5 March 2010

Mata-ni-Pachedi

I first met Sanjay Manubhai Chitara (b. 1978) when he had brought examples of his work to show the participants of the HAT lab at Arts reverie. Sanjay exhibits his work at the LOFT in Mumbai with Anupa Gupta one of the co-owners of Arts Reverie.

He has also been a previous participant in one of the earlier HAT cultural exchanges and there are examples of his work around Arts Reverie both in the building and outside.