‘Blindfold’ embroidery: Ritika Skand Vohra
When textile artist and embroiderer Ritika Skand Vohra sits down to work, she ties a blindfold around her eyes.
Then, picking up her needle, she...
Silver hair. Golden years. Vivid colours.
The phrase Ke Dil Abhi Bhara Nahin, is a fragment of an ever-popular song from the Hindi film Hum Dono (1961). The recent Sydney...
Aus artist Dena Lawrence’s work on Kashmiri silk carpets
At Germany’s Carpet Design Awards this year, Perth artist Dena Lawrence won the ‘Best Studio Artist Design’ category.
Her winning piece, which she calls Maschera,...
Indian links at Met Gala 2024
We’ve just finished gawking at the Met Gala 2024 red carpet, marvelling at the outrageous outfits each celebrity has pulled off on those famous...
Why we need a new kind of Nayika (heroine)
Belvoir St Theatre's successful presentations of solo work (Every Brilliant Thing, Blue, Lose to Win) and South Asian storytelling (Counting and Cracking, The Jungle and the Sea)...