Panchali Sheth
“There’s always a point where a sudden familiarity arises; this is followed by an emergence of an unintentional form”
She Carries All
Exhibition Opening 13th November
Step into a world of grandeur and spiritual significance which will undoubtedly resonate with all who hold the traditional and modern subject of femininity and guardianship close to their heart. She Carries all showcases a body of work exploring celestial and divine beings, the softness and strength of woman hood and ancient narratives reimagined into a contemporary visual language.
Panchali Sheth responds to narratives and stories from Indian Miniature’s which speak to her, and through an intuitive and layered process, she creates ineffable worlds within the confines of paint and canvas. Life for Seath is very much about duality; the material and spiritual nature of our world, the experience of women as vessels carrying both burdens and miracles of life and the narrative capacity of abstract and representational painting.
Sheth starts with a story or image and ends with hybrid characters exploring a contemporary point of view. This translates into worlds of colour with forms appearing and transforming before your eyes.
About Panchali Sheth.
Panchali Sheth is an Australian painter based in Sydney, Australia. She explores Indian miniatures. She observes the paintings closely to understand narratives, abstraction, expressive colours and gestural marks. She deconstructs Indian miniatures and Indian mythology within her work.
She starts by placing abstract marks and colours and builds up the surface of the canvas until the image(s) begins to emerge or suggest a narrative.
Some images may stay and some images may get erased She is constantly playing push and pull with her work.
She plays this game until it settles into a composition that she is interested in, and then she makes slower marks and suggestions to resolve her work.
The abstract gestures she makes encompass the varied humans and hybrid forms of her narratives. These gestures create their own personal language and stories.
It is a significant expression of the hybrid culture in which she lives.