Goa Heritage Festival 2022

FESTIVAL

has the unique ability to express the innermost emotions in a physical form, here in this exhibition, Our 45 participating artists illustrate various expressions on heritage. This exhibition features a range of work from paintings, photography and sculptures."

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Arcenio is a fine artist who lives and works in Goa. His works have thoughts derived from events or experiences. The current work has a descriptive goan architecture with a blend of a dream portrayal. The color palette is inspired by Impressionist art to create the atmosphere of imagination.

Aaron is a Photographer and Filmmaker who loves to capture the streets and tell their stories by way of his photos and videos. He works in close proximity with people who strive to keep Goa's Heritage alive and tries to do so as well in his own small way.

Ameeta Alter has enjoyed painting since high school, mostly Indian miniatures. Even while otherwise employed she continued to do so, as and when possible. Her art became a full time occupation in 2013, after she ‘retired’. She set up a pottery studio in Landour, Mussoorie in 2013, and began painting in oils soon after. Ameeta spends her time between Goa, where she paints and in Mussoorie where she does ceramics.

Aradhana Seth is a filmmaker, production designer, visual artist and producer. She art directed the films The Darjeeling Limited, London Has Fallen and The Bourne Supremacy. As an artist she has had solo shows at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai and Sunapranta’, Goa. Her work has been exhibited with Andrea Anastasio at Istituto Italiano de Cultura, New Delhi, and at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna, Grosvenor Gallery, London, Vadehra Art Gallery and Khoj, New Delhi and Clark House, Mumbai. The Merchant of Images is an on going public art project which has been part of the Indian Summer Festival. Vancouver, Jaipur Photo Festival. Jaipur, Format. Derby, India Art Fair. Delhi and Serendipity Arts Festival. Goa. She has collaborated on public art installations with the Forest Department of India, Dakshin Foundation and WWF. Her production design credits include The Sky is Pink, The Sweet Requiem, The Hungry, Angry Indian Goddesses, Vara, West is West, Don, One Night with the King, Admissions, Easy, The Guru (India), Leela, Everybody says "I'm Fine”!, Karvaan, Earth and Fire. She has directed/produced over 18 documentary films including DAM/AGE, A film with Arundhati Roy and an Omnibus on Vikram Seth. Most recently she produced A Suitable Boy, a six part series for BBC, airing on Netflix and a short film entitled The Daughter.

Aadhi Vishal is a freelance visual artist with his studio based in Goa. He has had several solo and group shows in India and abroad and art auctions. He has had the honour of exhibiting his works along with great masters like M.F. Hussain and Raza. He has won the Yuva Srujan Purashkar 2016/17 and the Goa State Art Award in 2001. His works are in several prestigious private collections and museum collections all over the world. His works can be called phantasmagoric. Symbols, hybrid forms and stylized forms add curious twists to the narrated story transforming each and every work into a surreal effusion.

Assavri Kulkarni is a conspicuous traveller. She travels between her roles as an visual artist, commercial photographer and a heritage food chef seamlessly on any given day. A practicing yogini, Assavri is also author of the seminal book ‘Markets of Goa’, and ‘Light on Photography’. An alumnus of Goa College of Art (A.A.), with specialisation in photography, Assavri’s career spans over two decades of commercial, documentary and art photography with several awards, citations and media publications to her credit. Home for her is the vibrant town Alto-Porvorim, where she shares space with her herpetologist husband Nirmal and art inclined daughter Naia. Besides photography and creating food recipes, Assavri spends time drawing, gardening and practicing yoga

Known for capturing architecture and design with unwavering precision, Bharath Ramamrutham's work is admired for his focus on the interplay of light and space. With a career spanning over 30 years and counting, Bharath has worked on several projects ranging from photography for architects, designers, multinationals, hotel groups and illustrated books on India. His pictures are published across several magazines and websites, the earliest Incredible India campaign, and campaigns for the Tourism authority of Seychelles and Mauritius. The acclaimed photographer has run his own Visual communications and publishing company since 2005 operating out of Goa, providing professional creative services to a global clientele.

Bhisaji Gadekar was born on 9th January 1987 in Goa, India. He received his Master's Degree in fine art in field of Sculpture from Kala Bhavan, Shantiketan, West Bengal in 2014. He works predominantly in the medium of sculpture, simultaneously integrating other medium like sitespecific installation and performance art. His endeavours in the field of art have won him many accolades including the prestigious " Emerging Artist Awards 2020" by The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) and The Swiss Art Council, Pro Hevelta. Bhisaji lives and work in Goa and is presently engaged and a funding member of Goa Artists Collective.

Conrad Pinto has a Bachelors degree in Painting from Goa College of Art - India He is based in Goa and in the last few years has been primarily working in the field of printmaking . Besides this, paintings, murals and photography have always played an important part in his creativity.

The process of modernization has affected Goa like the rest of the world with its focus on monetary gains, speed and ease of production while aspects such as quality of life, health and ecological sustainability have been ignored. The traditional Goan way of life is gradually disappearing. Several traditional occupations, techniques of farming, age old construction/maintenance methods are fading away. In a series of relief prints (woodcut and linocut) Conrad has tried to capture images of some of these traditions.

Chaitali Morajkar has an MFA Painting from Central University of Hyderabad , and has been working as a freelance artist for the last 20 years . She has participated in many group shows in India and abroad . She works with watercolors and acrylic medium, and her works are surrealist , figurative and symbolic, exploring themes related to gender, identity, self awareness , hybrid bodies , and surroundings .

Daniel D’souza is a documentary & commercial photographer based out of Goa & Bombay. Through photography he channels his most exploratory self. His craft enables him to explore spaces, objects and people with the visual landscapes he creates. The process is always as enjoyable as the final image because of everyone he meets along the way.

Darpana is a visual storyteller, traversing the world through design, photography, urban sketching and poetry. She leads Sarvasva Designs, a multidisciplinary design firm, and In.Kaa, a hub for the Arts and Crafts. Her series ‘The Working Hands of Goa’ is an acknowledgement, tribute and celebration to the ones that build our society and communities.

Francis D'sousa works primarily in watercolour and gouache also acrylic on canvas.

Girish G. Gujar completed his BFA digree at Aurangabad. He has been doing watercolours in Goa for the last 22 years, and is a watercolour artist by profession. He has participated in several art exhibitions like Goa state art, Fontainhas festival of art, few group shows & some solo exhibition in Maharastra & Goa..

Jimmy is an architect, back in Goa recently after working and living in a few cities in India and SE Asia. Jimmy has always had a soft corner for Fontainhas, Mala, Sao Tome, as he'd been involved previously in urban design intervention projects in Panaji as well as Heritage festivals between 2001-2004. Exhibited are urbansketches done (on location) in early 2022.

Kausalya is a painter and has graduated from Goa College of Art in 2005. She mostly works in watercolor and gouache and is greatly inspired by the Indian and Persian miniature style of paintings. Her themes are mostly Goan Landscapes, ecosystem, Heritage architecture etc. This particular work belongs to a series of paintings she did after visiting the Vanxim Island in Goa.

Kalidas has been working with memories connected with places and objects. The local places where he grow up, local names which are almost archival now and the visuals of the landscapes that he related to his memory, have started losing their identity both literally and visually. This work is an effort to freeze how these places are today with the names that he recollects and relates to.

A J.J. School of Art alumnus, she has two decades of experience and honed her art attending courses; hosting workshops, classes & exhibitions; and running Studio Klay, a Goa based ceramic studio for artisanal sculptural and functional pottery. My work is nature inspired, warm in aesthetics and organic in form.

Liesl Cotta De Souza has attained her B.F.A. (Painting) Degree, from Goa College of Art, Bombay University, Bombay. She has been actively involved in the art scenario in Goa and nationally, immediately on completing her academic degree. Liesl has a distinguished medium that she has developed and continues to work with and explore. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the country which and have been well received. She has also participated in numerous exhibitions at the National and International level. On invitation she has participated at various art camps and workshops. She lives and works from her residence in Miramar Goa.

As an interdisciplinary artist Miriam Koshy straddles different mediums, including film, photography and performance. Her art practice also includes working with gauze, drawn as she is to the sheer poetics of the medium which imbues in itself both pain and healing, fragility and strength, the warp and woof of life and the interconnectedness of it all. In this work, entitled Green Womb, she seeks to evoke the feeling that one experiences while passing under the widely loved avenue of trees in Campal, in order to make a comment on the socioecological value of green cover in urban spaces and how it forms part of our heritage.

Mohan Naik has done his BFA from Goa College of Art. Born and living in a village in South Goa, his paintings is the duplication of my surroundings in a unique style evolved from Indian miniature paintings and old masters. He has around 24 one man shows and around hundred group exhibitions to his credit.

The stylization of his paintings is inspired by his father Mr.Mohan Naik a senior, self taught Goan artist. He got to learn and experiment many techniques which were originally developed by him.

Having Mohan Naik as a guide helped him a lot to learn new things everyday. He had also met few of the artists, who were close to him and took feedback and guidance from them which helped me a lot to improve and develop my work.

Mohit is planning to experiment different techniques in art and to develop a unique style of his own.

N. Kanhaiya was born in 1975, in Goa . He secured a 1st class in B.F.A. Painting, at the Goa College of Art, Goa University, in 1997. He is influenced by his environment and paints to reflect back a message. He uses his compositions to reflect subtle movements on the canvas and uses symbolism to convey a particular idea or concept. He has already been part of over 45 group shows and has had 3 solo exhibitions. He is also the recipient of various prestigious national and state awards. His work was part of the 'namaste india 2005' show in Milan. His work has been exhibited across India, in New Delhi, Mumbai and Goa. His artworks are in prestigious collections of both new and seasoned collectors both in India and abroad.

Nishant Saldanha is an independent artist who uses drawing, writing and photography as the core practices in his work. This work, titled 'For Mollem and Arrey', is a print made from a drawing of ink on paper and digitally coloured.

Nirupa Naik is an artist from Goa whose works are a perfect reflection of her tranquil personality. Graduated from the Goa College of Art with a specialisation in creative painting, her three decades of tryst with colors and the canvas have been enriching. Having participated and bagging numerous awards, the unique style of painting with clustered lines, deliberate splotches and bright hues generate a festive mood. Her painting is called ”Kopyale”. The art of making kopyale is heridiatery and been passed down from generations since her great grandmother's time. It is stitched from smaller different types of designs of clothes.

Painter from Goa, India.

Orijit Sen is a visual artist who lives and works in Corjuem-Aldona, Goa. His work spans Graphic Novels, Murals, Cartoons and Book illustration. He is the author of 'River of Stories' - thought to be India's first Graphic Novel. He has been Mario Miranda Chair Visiting Professor at Goa University. His best known work in Goa is the 'Mapping Mapusa Market' project - which showed at the Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2016 and at the Serendipity Arts Festival, 2017.

Querozito honed his artistic skills as he moved on in life since 1991. His journey has been colorful as life’s myriad ways, and has a Masters Degree in Printmaking from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan in West Bengal. He has been a recipient of various Grants / Fellowships and awards at the state and national level, besides having a short stint as a lecturer at the Goa College of Art affiliated to the Goa University. It’s been an exhilarating experience documenting his experiences and reflections of life through numerous solo exhibitions and many a time been represented on invitation at various national and international exhibitions. Art activities have been his forte and been associated with art related activities and also has been on the visual art advisory committee of the state academy. He has also been invited as participant at various painting and printmaking workshops throughout the country and now works as a freelance painter and printmaker from his studio at Miramar, Goa.

Ranjit Patil's art is a reflection of him as a being.The all inclusive existential as well as non existential. Starting off with abstraction he has now have moved towards abstract landscape. Self taught, he has had three solo and a few group shows as well. This work, titled Kushavati Labyrinth is the petroglyph dating back to 8000 BCE, Goa's oldest known heritage.

Ramdas Gadekar graduated from Goa College of art with a bachelor's degree in 2005. He has been working in the Ceramic medium for nearly a decade. The particular sculpture titled, ' Holding on ' portrays a person carrying an old heritage house on his back. Our Heritage is the guide to our past and how our society has evolved. It's our responsibility as citizens to protect all that we have inherited from our ancestors.

"Enough is Enough" Pen and Ink drawing done on paper,with title "SHE".

Studied at the Goa College of Art, Altinho, Panaji, where he fine tuned his skills specialising in paintings and graphics. Prefers to portray the realms of his own fantasy, which mainly relates to the world of sea and the mysterious abyss, giving the viewers a surreal experience.

Goa is a state of mixed cultures that we celebrate with joy. Easter being one of them. The work is on theme of Easter through Kavi style in Goan form. The work depicts the early life of Jesus in small circles as well as Goan village scene too and in between the rise of new Jesus after Easter in centre.

Santosh finished his MFA,fine art in 2001. He works in Goa.

Born on 31st August 1968, she completed her Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts from Goa College of Arts, Bombay University in 1989.

The narratives of personal yet mundane life often stays quiet. Acquiring a curious eye, Shipla has been observant to this essential part of life through her works. The visual imageries are in reference to memories, culture and history that has been left behind. The blend of various layers of time and existence is a link to the elements of traces that record the fragments of existed past and the fiction that reinvents them. They enclose the past memoirs which reminisce pleasure of innocent ecstasy and sense of nostalgia unfolds through the layers deeply rooted in the unflinching inheritance. Her works largely reflect the domestic sphere in which she lives and nurtures. This so-called domestic space includes the inner world of personal life with utmost delicate details and outer public terrene which challenges the breakout of artistic output.

I am interested in architecture and the vivid landscapes of Goa.

Siddharth was born on 11/09/180, completed his BFA painting in 2001 and MFA painting in Hyderabad Central University 2003, received AIFACS national award in 2003, Lalit Kala Academy award in 2004, Yuva Srujan Puraskar in 2012, PDAF Gold Medal in 2017. He has done several shows and champs. He uses Crow Quill Pen on paper for his work.

Doing abstract paintings for the last 40 plus years.

THE GOAN HOUSE :The Portuguese conquered Goa in 1510. Their objective was to control the spice trade and spread Christianity. They arrived with drawings for churches, representative of the architectural styles prevalent in Europe during that period such as Manueline, Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque, Gothic, etc. The local masons interpreted these drawings and adapted them to suit the locally available construction materials and weather conditions. Old Goa, which is called the Rome of the East, became a laboratory of architectural experiments. A couple of centuries later, the descendants of these masons started constructing houses, which are described by many as ‘Portuguese Houses’. These houses indicate a rich assimilation of many European styles, yet they embody a distinctly indigenous architectural language. The Goan houses exhibit distinct features in their window designs, verandahs, porches (Balcao), compound walls, gate posts, columns, railings, pilasters, cornices and floorings. Each house has individual features selected by the owner yet a shared architectural aesthetic binds them together. Goan houses have a huge role to play in Goa’s cultural ethos. Her houses, churches and chapels are important hallmarks of the unique ‘Goa experience’. Goans are very proud of their houses and look after them with great care and affection. Each house can be described as a living archive of Goa’s histories. The owner, often displays a ‘NOT FOR SALE’ signage to discourage visitors who perhaps dream of buying a Goan house.

Swapnesh vaigankar is a visual artist, from Goa. He has received education from Goa College of art,painting, MFA ms university Baroda. He has achieved national award, state art award, received scholarships, and has participated in art residency workshops and exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Today we can see the animals around us who live very miserable lives. Human beings always treated them like slaves. Here in this painting, Vitesh Narayan Naik has tried to depict human condition in a humorous way, where a dog dominates humans.

In our life we have to face lot of problems hurdles sometimes we become successful to tackle it and sometimes we fail. But it is the faith that takes us out miraculously from Labryinth. It is beyond human mind or reason. It just happens to rescue you.

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Verodina De Sousa is a Goan sculptor with more than 35 years of experience under her belt. She graduated from the Goa College of Art and with a degree in painting. At a later stage, she moved off to sculpting in search of a continuous self realization, thereby transforming her thoughts to forms and figures. Her figures and figurines of men, women and children, in different postures and forms – sitting, reading, talking or busy in everyday activities are moulded by hand and fired before she adds her final touches for installation. Her work has become a part of Goa’s physical landscape and she encapsulates the state’s ethos and beauty with elan.

1981 BFA Painting Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara 1983 MFA Graphic Art Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara 1984 Joined Kanoria Centre for Arts,Set up and established the Print Studio . Visiting faculty in Visual studies(Basic Design) School of Architecture Ahmedabad from 1987 to 2012 Advisory member CEPT work shop wood , metal, print, ceramic, fablab

Born and brought up in Goa, A Portuguese Territory until its liberation in 1961 Yolanda de Sousa Kammermeier holds a B.F.A. (painting) degree from The University of Bombay.

Yolanda's style of creating a ceramic like effect on canvas with relief and high gloss has become her trade mark She enjoys working with watercolours too. Widely traveled world over for her Solo shows,Group shows and various International Art Camps .

Yolanda has to her credit 25 solo shows within and outside the country from 1999 to 2022 and more than 100 National and International shows during the same period of time. Her work has found International appreciation and awards in Hajdunanas n Hajdubeszermeny Hungary,Toyama Japan ,the latest in Rome Italy in 2020, besides the State Award for painting from the Government of Goa. Her works are in private and public collections in most parts of the world including India.