The idea and experience of travel can mean many things: it involves movement of some kind, sometimes through unknown places, at other times just between home and the world. Journeys can also be inward, marking rites of passage or a growth into a new dimension. We travel in search of profit, pleasure or curiosity, to labour and survive, to flee from tyranny or sorrow, and into real and imagined utopias.
Tejubehn, singer and self taught urban folk artist from Ahmedabad in western India, recalls the events that brought her to the city and enabled her to become an artist. Page after page of sumptuous art are witness to a remarkable woman\'s life, caught between endemic poverty and a rich inner world. Drawing...[more]
Amrita Das, a young artist trained in the Mithila style of folk painting, steps off a train in an unfamiliar city. She is pleased with her privilege to travel, and starts to wonder about her vocation: what it is to be a woman artist? What should she draw and why?
Her musings lead to a wonderfully imaginative...[more]
Pictures from Italy is one of Charles Dickens\' early works, a fantastic and whimsical foray into the twin worlds of travel and the imagination. Inspired by his words, Italian artist Livia Signorini plays with Dickens\'s sense of place, memory, and politics. The result is a brilliant contemporary dialogue...[more]