CHITRA GOA MUSEUM is proud to presenttwo leading international collaborative artists
LADAKH an exhibition of paintings and text http://www.gallerieartfelt.com/
Janet Pierce is a leading Irish artist who had her first solo exhibition in the Everhart Museum, Pennsylvania in 1973 and after four years in America she moved to Ireland where she has since lived and worked. Music has always been a concern of hers, and she collaborated with the traditional singers, Maighread and Triona NíDhomhnaill, in their CD Idir an Dá Sholas (Between the Two Lights), a collaboration which helped her realize her deep connection with landscape. However, following and intensely close involvement with India, since 2003, her work has taken a different direction. Indian sacred singing and meditation has been the source of her work. The word Om, from the ancient Sanskrit alphabet, is the sound of the universe or the Source or God, and reflects her desire to return to that Sacred Space within. Using gold and silver leaf from Old Delhi, these new abstract works on paper has resulted in an intensification of earlier consideration, her hunger for transcendence realised through the contemplation of landscape and of the cosmos. Now she is collaborating with a leading Indian poet, Sudeep Sen. They are producing a book paintings and poetry called Ladakh. The images will be taken from four series of her work - series Om, Maya, Aria and Prayer Flags. This will be launched at the Irish Embassy in Delhi in March, 2011. She has won numerous awards, recently including three from Culture Ireland (2007/10), Banff Residency Award Canada (2010), Sanskritti Foundation New Delhi (2003), Fundaction Valpairiso Spain (2002) and has achieved the major award of member of the Aosdana for her life time achievement in Ireland. She exhibits in many galleries throughout Ireland, her main gallery being the Taylor Galleries in Dublin. She also exhibits in galleries in the USA, UK, Portugal and India. www.janetpierce.com Sudeep Sen is widely recognised as a major new generation voice in world literature and “one of the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene” (BBC Radio). He is “fascinated not just by language but the possibilities of language” (Scotland on Sunday). He read English at the University of Delhi, and as an Inlaks Scholar received an MS from the Journalism School at Columbia University in New York. His awards, fellowships and residencies include: Hawthornden Fellowship (UK), Pushcart Prize nomination (US), Breadloaf (US), Pleiades Honour (Macedonia), Dutch Foundation for Literature Fellowship (Netherlands), Tyrone Guthrie Centre Fellowship (Ireland) and Sanskriti Foundation Writers Fellowship (India). He was international writer-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. His prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Prayer Flag, Distracted Geographies, Rain, and Aria (A K Ramanujan Translation Award). Blue Nude: Poems & Translations 1977-2012, winner of the Jorge Zalamea International Poetry Prize, is forthcoming. He has edited major anthologies including: The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry by Indians, World Literature Today Writing from Modern India, and Literary Review Indian Poetry. His words have also appeared in leading publications and broadcast media, including: Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, Guardian, Independent, Harvard Review, Hindu, Outlook, and India Today; and broadcast on BBC, CNN IBN, NDTV, PBS, AIR and Doordarshan. His recent work appears in Indian Love Poems (Everyman/Random House), New Writing 15 (Granta), Language for a New Century (Norton), and Oxford New Writing (Blackwell). He is the director of the Delhi International Literary Festival, editorial director of Aark Arts publishers, and editor of the leading international magazine Atlas. www.atlasaarkarts.net
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