Photography pending
Collection · 5 works
Heritage, Carried Forward
AN
Aji Nayar
Curator
Traditional craft gets two bad offers. Either it is put behind glass and admired as heritage, which is a polite way of saying it is finished. Or it is thinned out into something saleable and sold as a souvenir. This collection refuses both.
The works
In the curator's order.
Artists in this collection
3 artists. All named.
SA
Traditional artisans and craftspeople
Sethumadhavan Achari
Kerala mural painter · Guruvayur
Fourth-generation mural painter working in natural pigment, in a tradition his family has kept for over a century.
View works
SK
Homemakers with creative skills
Sreelatha K.
Self-taught painter · Thrissur
Painted at her kitchen table for eleven years before her first work was shown.
View works
DP
Persons with physical, intellectual or developmental disabilities
Devan Pillai
Painter · Alappuzha
Came to painting after a stroke ended a career in engineering. Works large.
View works
Adjacent collections