Himani Gupta: Of Lands and Wonders

30 Sep 2024-10 Jan 2025

PV 26 Sep 2024, 6-9pm

To Hold It All, 2022, Oil and pigments on canvas. Credit: Himani Gupta

Overview

Felstead Art is pleased to present Of Lands and Wonders, a solo collection of paintings by Himani Gupta painted between 2018 and 2022. 

Himani Gupta is a London based artist whos practice investigates psychogeography and ecologies. The chosen works in this exhibition highlight her continuing relationship with land and place. 

Himani Gupta has varied and non-conforming professional and education backgrounds, an extensive list of travel and experiments and the very vivid dreams she experiences feed her work and perspectives. Ideas relating to identity, place, ecologies and transience are explored in her paintings and drawings. 

References from art history, film, mythology, personal archives, memory and stories form the bones and layers of her paintings. Landscapes, maps, bodies and looking at the spaces between objects are an essential layer in her visual language. Painterly techniques, drawing everyday, intuitive processes and materiality form an important part of Himani’s practice. Her compositions - led by both imagination and observation, are built upon form, marks and colour, and involve processes of layering, excavating, mixing, scraping and assembling. 

Gupta holds a Master’s in Urban Planning and Real Estate from The Bartlett following a Fine Arts and Design diploma from Central Saint Martins, and has recently completed a drawing program at the Royal Drawing School in London. A part of her studio practice is also dedicated to socially engaged projects and academic collaborations. Some of these include projects and talks in the area of medical humanities, access to justice, political borders and borderlands, and working with children. 

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Himani Gupta: Of Lands and Wonders - press release
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