South Asian Women Artists' Loop (SAWAL)

SAWAL is a network that will be maintained among a collective of women artists through cyber based exchanges, long distant collaborative art projects and art residencies/workshops that specifically explore the experiences, articulations of women across art disciplines, geographical boarders and cultural specificities.

Room of My Own: Revisited…

Concept of the art project:The A Room of My Own: Revisiting….. ‘ is a project that hopes to explore through different visual art mediums, the creative writings of women who have help to formulate and build South Asia’s feminist discourse grounded on its geo-political and cultural anxieties. These writings have offered an alternative thought process that has help to form informed opinions, practices and ideas towards women in the society through their literary writings. Virginial Wolf, an internationally known female writers whose work has inspired women across continent and cultures is evoked in the title ‘A Room of My Own’ used as a point of departure to engage in literature that is produced within South Asia. The project connects visual art and literature combining the depth of the word and the depth of visuality creating layers of meaning, one that is of the writer and another of the artist. The work process of the artists participating in the project would involve creating artworks with attempts of interpretation, dissection and overlapping of content. This process hopes to produce a series of paintings, drawings, video art, photographs, film, installation and book art through re-reading of local literature.Room of My Own project will have the particiation of of 8 artists representing India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal. The project will run through a period of one year and the works produced during this period will be first shown in selected venues in India. Room of My Own exhibition hopes to travel to Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh in 2011.



Artists from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka are participating in the program 'Room of My Own...'. Seema Kohli/ Brinda Miller (India), Asma Mundrawala / Ayesha Jatoi (Pakistan), Ayesha Sultana/ Tayeba Begum Lipi (Bangladesh), Anoli Perera/ Menika van der Pooten (Sri Lanka) and Ashimina Ranjit/ Sajana Joshi (Nepal) will work together for a period of 12 months (July 2010 -July 2011) on the Room of My Own project creating a large body of artworks responding to selected creative writing pieces by women writers selected from each country. Their work will be done in response to the writings as well as to each others’ work, creating a notion of continuity from one to the other conceptually and visually.

Friday, August 13, 2010

India Thread







India Thread commenced in July this year and artists have started work responding to selected excerpts from The Palace of Illusions, authored by the Indian author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Following are works by Sanjana Joshi, Asma Mundrawala, Ayesha Jatoi, Seema Kolhi, Brinda Miller and Anoli Perera.

For more information of their work on India Thread please visit 'India Thread' page.
Sajana Joshi, Muddle


Asma Mundrawala, The Petal of this Afternoon




Ayesha Jatoi, Five







Seema Kohli, ‘Robing of Draupadi’





Brinda Miller, Song
Anoli Perera, Lace menagerie -2





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