'Multiple Originals features an exhibition of Fine Art prints by Manjula Padmanabhan's (Etchings and Lithographs) and works from Pratibha Dakoji's Collection.

MANJULA PADMANABHAN (b. 1953)

Is a writer and an artist. She traveled extensively as a child, with her father in the Foreign Service. She did a BA in Economics (Elphinstone College, Bombay) and an MA in History (Bombay University). From 1970 onwards, she worked as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. She has illustrated 22 books for children to date including her own recent novel, MOUSE ATTACK (Macmillan Children's Books, UK). She had a weekly comic strip, DOUBLE-TALK in the Sunday Observer (Bombay, 1982-86) and a daily strip SUKI in The Pioneer (New Delhi, 1991-97). She is widely believed to be India's first woman cartoonist. In 1999 she entered a collaborative print-making program at Atelier2221 in New Delhi, an experience she found immensely rewarding. She has rarely exhibited her work. This London show will be her first outside India.

PRATIBHA DAKOJI

Was born in Kenya. She studied Fine Art in M.S University (Baroda, India) before joining her parents in London, UK, in the mid-70s. She entered the Chelsea School Evening Classes while working as Clerical Officer at the Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture in London. She moved to India in the early 80s, working as a painter and print-maker. In 1996, she and her husband, master printer Devraj Dakoji, started Atelier 2221, the only independent edition-making studio in India. She is a printmaker and multimedia artist, in watercolour, acrylics and, very recently, sound-waves. As the Director of the Atelier, she has coordinated workshops, curated exhibitions of fine art prints and published fine art print projects. She has lectured on contemporary printmaking in colleges and the National Gallery and has exhibited extensively, both in India and abroad.

Her work is included in national and international collections.

Aside from her own monoprints and lithographs, the artists whose work she will present at the London show are: Himmat Shah's etchings and lithographs; a portfolio edition including: Amitav Das, Amrut Patel, Kavita Jaiswal, Manu Parekh, Madhvi Parekh, Manisha Parekh, Manisha Gera, Suhas Nimbalkar, Yusuf, Shiela Makhijani; and B.C. Sanyal.

Top