Sophia Bharmal Sustained 2 Oil Pastel on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Sophia Bharmal (1996) is an emerging British Asian Artist based in London. Following her graduation in 2020, she has focused on developing artwork which encases aspects of her Indian upbringing, using oil pastels to produce vivid colourful architectural landscapes fuelled by memories. Her work has been featured in several publications as well as group exhibitions internationally, and in the UK in the last year Education Master's (MArch) degree in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh, MA degree in Architecture from the University of Cambridge. Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021 Statement about AOAP Submitted My work exists on the threshold of dream and reality depicting seemingly inconsequential aspects of my Indian heritage. Nevertheless, the drawings hold the stories, culture and memories of unheard women passed down through generations. "Sustained 1 & 2" satirise an understanding of marriage within my community, that, like food, it sustains a woman. My women are being fed by others, mirroring the notion that socially someone else must have a hand in your sustenance.
Sophia Bharmal Sustained 2 Oil Pastel on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Sophia Bharmal (1996) is an emerging British Asian Artist based in London. Following her graduation in 2020, she has focused on developing artwork which encases aspects of her Indian upbringing, using oil pastels to produce vivid colourful architectural landscapes fuelled by memories. Her work has been featured in several publications as well as group exhibitions internationally, and in the UK in the last year Education Master's (MArch) degree in Architecture from the University of Edinburgh, MA degree in Architecture from the University of Cambridge. Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021 Statement about AOAP Submitted My work exists on the threshold of dream and reality depicting seemingly inconsequential aspects of my Indian heritage. Nevertheless, the drawings hold the stories, culture and memories of unheard women passed down through generations. "Sustained 1 & 2" satirise an understanding of marriage within my community, that, like food, it sustains a woman. My women are being fed by others, mirroring the notion that socially someone else must have a hand in your sustenance.
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