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SHIVANI MATHUR |
If I had to summarise my artistic practice in a single word, it would be
"Nonlinear."
"Nonlinear."
I am fascinated by unpredictable human behaviour, sudden and seismic shifts in our environment and tales of the unexpected, especially when they shock and disrupt our lives.
Through art, finance, and science, I search for pathways that lead such experiences to empower us to see a new way forward. How can we turn a catastrophe, a crisis and a weakness into an instrument that regenerates, and strengthens?
My practise is an incessant and recursive search for something more powerful than what I see - the "unseen"
Through art, finance, and science, I search for pathways that lead such experiences to empower us to see a new way forward. How can we turn a catastrophe, a crisis and a weakness into an instrument that regenerates, and strengthens?
My practise is an incessant and recursive search for something more powerful than what I see - the "unseen"
Selected works
Pathways of light. exhibited at Granary square. London, made from waste eggshell and broken mirror sheets won the Louis Vuitton and University of Arts award for sustainability. View
Pathways of light. exhibited at Granary square. London, made from waste eggshell and broken mirror sheets won the Louis Vuitton and University of Arts award for sustainability. View
Pathways ion light: An award winning sculpture of Humpty Dumpty version 2.0
made from waste and broken eggshell.
Pathways of Light. Studio image of award winning sculpture
made with broken mirror and eggshell.
A Moment in time. A dyptic of generative rework paired with a Riso print exhibited at the Lethaby gallery, London. View
A moment in Time. Riso print
Hiranya Garbha, Resin sculpture exhibited in Covent Garden as part of the Faberge Egg hunt. View
Hiranya Garbha. As displayed in Covent Garden. London
More works and past exhibitions. View
Circle of life
My artistic practice is simple. I look in unlikely places for my art materials - often they are commonplace such as broken mirror and decaying eggshell: they smell terrible, look ugly. From this pile of waste, by using simple repetitive and recursive actions, often assisted by technology, emerges a new order that was hard to imagine when I looked at the disorderly, broken and cracked materials.
The reversal from disorder to order in my artistic practice inspires me to observe, investigate and discover new pathways both within myself and in the universe. It reminds me to never lose sight of the fact that we are all naturally endowed with a gift: to dream the impossible, feel the intangible and visualise the limitless.
The reversal from disorder to order in my artistic practice inspires me to observe, investigate and discover new pathways both within myself and in the universe. It reminds me to never lose sight of the fact that we are all naturally endowed with a gift: to dream the impossible, feel the intangible and visualise the limitless.
