Shanti Panchal
Shanti Panchal is a London-based Indian artist, born in 1951 in Mesar in the state of Gujarat. Panchal studied art at the JJ School of Art in Mumbai and then at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. He won the National Portrait Gallery/BP Portrait Award in 1991 and was Artist-in-Residence at the National Gallery in London in 1994. Panchal has also been artist-in-residence at the British Museum, the Harris Museum in Preston and the Winsor & Newton Art Factory in London. In 2015, he won the third Biennial Self-Portrait Prize. In 2020 Panchal and Rachel Dickson co-curated Midnight’s Family: 70 Years of Indian Artists in Britain, a virtual exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. He is an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
Handkerchief Seller
"Handkerchief Seller was derived from my time spent in Mumbai while I was studying there. It was fascinating to see the energy and struggle for survival in this big cosmopolitan city. People were selling literally anything they could get their hands on, to sustain themselves and their families. While walking from the railway station to art school every day, I observed this woman selling handkerchiefs in her upside down umbrella on the footpath. Her muted colour sari, her worn out feet, scattered newspaper nearby and her conditioned harsh reality were all visible on her sunburnt face. This was a striking visual...
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