04/08/2020
IN CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST
VAISHALI OAK
EPISODE 3
Art Lane.Kalagoshthi is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting
DATE: 8th August 2020
TIME: 4:00-5:30 pm
Topic: 'DEMYSTIFYING FABRIC ASSEMBLAGE'
Vaishali Oak (INDIA)
Has Masters in Painting. Since 1997 her primary medium is fabric and her muse is a simple village quilt called 'Godhadi' in her native region.
She received Junior Fellowship by Government of India, Ministry of Culture, in the field of Visual Art In year 2000. It was a two-year fellowship where she explored the visual effects and ethos of godhadis and transpose the essence in a contemporary art form.
Disturbed by the horrific communal clash in Godhra, in Gujarat, in 2002, that fanned into ghastly riots, Vaishali spontaneously created a hard-hitting work titled ‘Flow of Death’ (After Godhra) that received a National Academy Award (2002).
She is also having a special mention in the catalogue of the show celebrating 50 years of Lalit Kala Akademi called ‘Swarnarekha’.
She was a part of 9th ‘From Lausanne to Beijing’ International Fiber Art Biennale Exhibition and Exchange. Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, (China) P.R., her work was awarded as 'Outstanding artwork' in this Biennale. Her works and her installation was a part of an official collateral for Kochi-Muziris Biennale (INDIA) 2016 from 12th December 2016 to 29th March 2017. Participated in 12th International Contemporary Textile biennial, Scythia, Ukraine 2018. She was apart of 10th ‘From Lausanne to Beijing’ International Fiber Art Biennale Exhibition and Exchange 2018. Which was held at The Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University, Beijing. Participated in a group show ’THOUGHT IS ALSO A MATTER’ curated by renowned artist and curator Raju Sutar a collateral exhibition, part of fourth edition Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018. She represented India at Invited Artists section in ‘World Textile Art’ , 8th Biennial at Madrid ,Spain, September 2019. She was part of Invited Artist’s section in ‘Raigad Activista 2020