His experiences have been reflected in the art he creates. What's more, growing up in India and the possibility of living in Switzerland and Poland, the international context of his school and studies allowed him to observe various cultures and appreciate the common element that connects them - humanity in its physical and spiritual dimension. UAP and Ecolint had a phenomenal impact on his artistic development. The next stage was Poland and admission to the University of Arts in Poznań. With the support of his patrons and a host of people of goodwill he was admitted to and graduated from the International School of Geneva (Ecolint) with the International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme (Arts) and Business and Technology Education Council in Art and Design diplomas. A gift of crayons and a drawing pad changed his life and allowed him to discover and devote his life to the arts. Mohan Pugalenthi’s artistic journey began 10 years ago when, for the first time, He visited his Polish patrons in Singapore for Christmas.
Fast forward 20 years later, a thriving student of Fine Arts in his final year at the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu. Pugalenthi graduated from the IB Career program in Arts at the International School of Geneva in Switzerland and then moved to Poland, where he currently resides.īorn into extreme poverty in central India, he lost his father shortly after his birth and was raised by a gravely ill mother. Mohan Pugalenthi ( born in 2002 ) is a Contemporary Tamil artist who comes from a small town in Tamil Nadu, who studied in the English program at the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznan. Hardbound Portfolio Cover for Legal Note Pad Inside Gloss White Hardboard Coaster with Cork Back Travel Luggage Tag (Fiber Reinforced Plastic) Women's Vapor Apparel Solar Performance Short Sleeves Men's Vapor Apparel Performance Long Sleeve Sweatshirts Men's Vapor Apparel Solar Performance Polo T-Shirts (Martin teaches Art as well as practising it, and began to involve embroidery into her own work after covering it in her lessons.) As part of Imagined Characters, a newly opened exhibition at London’s Sid Motion Gallery, Martin’s pieces are on display alongside those of Charis Entwisle, Pat O’Connor and Daniel Wheeler in an exploration of identity and perception – where they play a reflective role indeed.Men's Vapor Appareal Performance Hoodie Long Sleeve Sweatshirt
Certain patterns and colours – the pale blue floral wallpaper in Succulent, the multi-hued knitwear in Blue Funk, or the kitsch flowered bedspread in Fool’s Paradise, for example – add an element of the visceral to her work, the embroidery in some makes the pieces ultra tactile. Often taking inspiration from wallpaper or fabric prints from the 1960s and 70s, as well as vintage magazine and advertising clippings, and combining these with images from her own travels – they are cut and pasted by hand, always – Martin’s pieces have a timeless quality to them. “When I was doing those collages, I knew I was sort of anxious for a long time, but I didn’t really know why I was cutting the faces out,” she says, “but looking back, that’s when I began to realise it was this ‘derealisation’ sensation.” Derealisation is characterised by a feeling of not being present, hence the title The Absence of Presence, and the distance that is established between the viewer and the paintings’ subjects, a distance that allows for the viewer to “play a part” in them, and perhaps craft their own narrative. Having studied psychology, and harbouring an interest in “the unconscious process”, Martin’s work is informed by such ideas – even if she is not aware of the influence until the pieces are complete. “I didn’t have a studio at that point, so I just basically made like 100 collages in a sketchbook and I painted pieces of paper,” she explains over the phone, “and some of them, when I managed to get them into the studio, I made into paintings.” Martin’s mixed media pieces are enticing, incorporating embroidery, swathes of rich colours, and the unavoidable lack of faces on their female figures.
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Artist Jennifer Louise Martin’s recent series The Absence of Presence was born out of a lack of a space to work in.
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