Gangu Bai is an artist from Central India. She has many stories to tell of her community: their work, festivals, the way they grow or find food, their relationship to nature and trees...Gangu\'s stories are filled with exquisite details: the name of trees, what to eat and avoid in the wild, roaming in...[more]
This picture scroll book has been painted by Rohima Chitrikas, a young Patua scroll painter from West Bengal. In one seamless stream of images, she captures everyday life among the Santhals, one of India's oldest communities. We\'ve turned her scenes of work, play, leisure and festivity in to an interactive...[more]
If your community were to be represented in a museum, what would you put in it? India is home to a range of folk and tribal artists, from rich and varied cultural backgrounds. Much of what we learn about these communities – who often exist on the margins of mainstream society – is through their representation...[more]
This whimsical allegory on the art of storytelling is based on an old legend from India. We invited J. Borges, the world-acclaimed Brazilian woodcut artist and engraver, to an unusual collaboration - and he came up with these beautiful illustrations in the folk style of the cordel from north eastern...[more]
An Ideal
Boy is a uniquely illuminating and hugely entertaining survey of a
fascinating Indian phenomenon - charts. Intended primarily as
educational material, charts also act as guides to morality and offer
marvellous cautionary tales. A mixture of stylised popular culture and
sanctimonious pedagogy,...[more]