Sundar Kanta Walker
ARTIST AND WRITER
Curriculum Vitae
Sundar Kanta Walker
The Studio
Grange Over Sands
Home
Darwen, Lancashire
Contact
sundar@artsk.co.uk
Place of Birth: East Punjab India
Future:
Parallax Art Fair at Chelsea Town Hall 17th-19th October 2013
Private View 17th October at 7.30 pm.
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2014
Parsonage Gardens Gallery South Manchester 17th May to 1st June.
Grizedale Forest Gallery Lake District.June 14th to 3rd November.
Current:
2013
EXHIBITION at Artfest North Kendal Town Hall 26th to 28th July 2013.
Private View 26th July 7.30
Working on 'Krishna in the Mango Orchard' an adventure story set in many
parts of India.
Painting with the eminent Painter Shri Panchthaya recreating 'Shangri La'
the gardens, the waterfall and the tropical scenery on a maga scale.
Past:
2012
'Infernal Landscapes'
Exhibition at the Isis Cafe, Levenshulme, Manchester 19 from 13th December
2011 to 15th April 2012.
For details and direction please ring Mike Lyons on: 07584086316.
The exhibition has some additional paintings made in the last six months.
2011
'Infernal Landscapes' and 'Launch' of 'Shantanu - Keeper of my Love' choreographed
Bharat Natyam performance by Geetha Upadhaya at Kalasangam, 1 Foster Square,
Bradford.
Winter Landscapes selected for Winter Exhibition at Peacock Visual Arts Centre,
Aberdeen from 11th November to 23rd December 2011.
2009
Exhibition of new paintings from Eskdale area at Lowescourt Gallery,
Egremont entitled 'Vibrant Hues' from June 13th to end July
Artist's Residency and exhibition at Hasta Gallery, Hyderabad, India August to September 2009.
This Precious Place
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery November 2008- January 2009
2008
The Universal and the Particular
Lancaster City Museum and Art Gallery
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
2007
This Precious Place and Samsara at
Portico Art Gallery
Brewery Arts Centre Womens Arts International Festival
'This Precious Place' Neo's Art Gallery, Cockermouth
Gracefields Arts Centre, Dumfries
Waterside Arts Centre
2005
Samsara , Brewery Warehouse Gallery.
2004
2D' Brixton Art Gallery , London
Green Door Open Studios Kendal
2003
Annual Grasmere Exhibition October.
2000
Channel 6 Hyderabad India
Sundar Rang MP Birla Art Gallery London
1992
Frankfurt Arts Festival
1991
Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore Pakistan
1989 - 1991
'Jag Mag Jugni' touring exhibition to Tameside, Skelmersdale and Glasgow
1989
Shakir Ali Museum Lahore
Frankfurt International Festival (and tour)
1980 - 1986
Riverside Studios Manchester (annual)
Arts Collections:
City Art Gallery Manchester
Private Jubilee Hills (India) Lahore and Islamabad
Germany,
Holland
Southern Italy
Spain
Syria.
Publications:
Sare Mare Novel Published By Pandora 1989.
Flame, Talkers Through Dream Doors Poetry anthologies.
Relative to Me Short Stories by Women Writers,
The Redbeck Anthology
The Edge New Cumbrian Writers.
Various articles, short stories and academic papers in various journals including
The Guardian, Spare Rib, The Metropolitan, Psychotherapy and Art Therapy journals.
Decibel, A North West Profile
Personal Statement:
I come from an Indian background and from an ancient culture
where art traditions are seen as a part of life ever evolving and ever changing.
I was fostered in my teens, and later married into a Scottish family and had
all my education in Britain. I have also travelled widely both in the Indian
subcontinent, the Middle East and Europe.
It is this fusion of many cultures and values that is the strength of modern
art in Britain, and I am proud to be a part of it. I see art as a force freeing
people from narrow hide-bound beliefs controlled by religion, ethnicity and
culture. It is this intermediate space between belonging and non-belonging
that is important for me and that energises my art.
- Sundar