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ABOUT
ABOUT
My life in London has roots that snake across continents and cultures. I am a mother-maker whose art in sculpture, collage, installation and poetry is a record of life as I see, feel, hear and hold. Through my making using ways of old and ordinary, I hope to remake a different telling of this story of life with no fixed beginning, middle or end. I work with clay, earth, ceramic, paper, wood, ink, paint and found print. In a world of the fast and furious, mine is a slow practice of listening, observing, depth, care, freedom and above all acceptance.
I meld form, pattern, and colour meshing materials drawing on my eastern ancestral knowledge of clay, cloth and colour. With a childhood deeply rooted in Kolkata’s Durga Thakur tradition, my association with clay is not with the ubiquitous pot
but that of the monumental idol of the Durga Protima. To me practice is devotion, sculpture, tradition, alive, story-carrying, godly-mortal, recording and replaying,
shape changing, bringer of communion, maker of community, and gloriously celebrates ours humanity.
Rooted in storytelling, I examine the human experience and contemporary life through intricate patterns and fluid forms. I merge age-old techniques with contemporary sensibilities influenced by Bengal’s artisanal traditions, creating richly
detailed surfaces.
A muddled life of moving lands many times, I am a reader and recorder of people. My visual chronicles of memory and belonging arise through experimenting with scale and materiality, I seek to transforms personal moments into universal reflections, weaving past and present, east with west to create a visual record of the evolving human condition.

Kumar Tuli, Kolkata © Devi Chakrabarti, India, 2018
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THE UNCERTAINTY OF BEING

Stoneware Ceramic and Turned Timber
2024
90cm x 46cm x 161cm
Living in London, I have an enduring observance of people walking their neighborhood green space. At first I used to think it was to take in the fresh air but I have come to realise it is just as much to refresh soul in the company of another. From first hand experience I appreciate the power of “Walk & Talk” therapy. The act of walking makes for the dropping of reserve and provides safety in being able unburden the heart without dropping the façade of face. UNCERTAINTY OB BEING is an attempt to capture this very British phenomenon.
UNCERTAINTY OF BEING is an abstract diptych of humanoid figures of indeterminate age, gender and race, standing as if in dialogue. Living through the life and times of now, we’ve all had to grow a third leg to navigate uneven ground. The chequered upper sections represent our outer facing selves, bright and ebullient, although we guard our inner realm with inscrutable masks of discretion. The prickly underbelly enclosed and inaccessible to outsiders and onlookers hints at the darkness we hold within.