MASH Podcast

Youdhisthir Maharjan was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1984. He attended military boarding school for ten years, studying sciences and mathematics. He received his undergraduate degree in creative writing and art history from New England College in New Hampshire, and an M.F.A. in conceptual printmaking from the University of Idaho. His text-based works have been published and exhibited internationa...

Brought up on a plantation in Munnar, located at the edge of a forest, PR Satheesh forged a strong bond with nature in his early years. From Munnar in Kerala to Mumbai—the artist takes conventional stereotypes—breaks them and finds ways of creating permutations and combinations that create a synergy of Pollockian canvasses filled with conversations about the complexities of life’s multiple framewo...

Surekha is a contemporary Indian video artist whose works showcase themes including identity and feminism/ecology. She has been a full-time artist since 1996 and her video works have been shown at galleries outside India since 2001. Her works are known for the mix of video and physical presence, highlighting inherent experiences. Surekha has been exploring the possibilities of the video form, nego...

Sachin George Sebastian graduated in Communication Design from National Insitute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. His practice with paper and pop-up books led him to participate in a residency at Khoj on The Idea of the Book in 2009, following which he started working as independent artist. He has shown his works in various shows in India and outside.  In this one of a kind podcast, get an insight into...

A graduate of New York’s Parsons School of Design, the Franco-Indian-Norwegian designer’s focus on art-like textiles is what earned her multiple emerging designer awards since her launch in 2018. The brand’s core sensibility lies in the interaction between hand and material - every piece is about textural processes and surface treatments: she personally paints each fabric, meaning no two pieces ar...

Arjun Sara is an architect experimenting with both art and architecture using various means. He completed his B.Arch from Vastu Kala Academy, New Delhi in 2015 and further mastered his knowledge, with a PG course from DIA Dessau, Germany in 2016. From 2016 to 2018, he worked on various residential and institutional projects with vir.mueller architects, Delhi. Since the beginning of 2019, Arjun sta...

Dr. Ellen-Andrea Seehusen formerly managed international events, sponsoring and brand centers at BMW and Lufthansa. In 2007 she founded IAM to deliver bespoke concepts to business leaders and companies. Since then, she has initiated the Rolls-Royce Art Program, working directly with artists such as Isaac Julien, Yang Fudong and Angela Bulloch as well as with designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Charl...

Concerned with the metaphors of material, Pranati sutures a web of images; some speak of the death and transience in nature, while others evoke movements of insects, birds, flowers. Hand drawn, embroidered and painted upon, the paper and fabric sometimes becomes a soil like surface with microcosmic insects crawling over it, at others it appears as a skin which is freckled with glitters, beads, col...

Savitha Ravi explores alternative methods of printmaking by employing commonly found materials such as cardboard, fabric and tetra packs to create her art. Her interest in architectural details and patterns are evident in her compositions. Savitha believes that in re-creating these patterns from existing structures in her own artwork, she is adding on to the memory of those spaces. Savitha complet...

My work concentrates on natural habitats and aesthetics as my childhood and adolescence has been spent in the lap of nature. I belong to the family of farmer that is why I adore the phenomena of the earth. There is a need for humans to grow and nurture our relation with the nature in today's society. the essence of nature, forms, colours, textures and other elements inspires me." In a on...

Born in 1981 in Delhi, Chetnaa completed her Master’s degree in Painting from the College of Art in New Delhi. Her geometric abstractions are drawn largely from the landscape and architectures of her city, keen observations of the metropolis translated into an eloquent schematic of lines and markers. Initiated as symmetrical arrangements, Chetnaa’s work reveals the need to deconstruct the order sh...

Zimbiri , born and raised in Bhutan, finished her undergrad from Wheaton College, MA, with a double major in Economics and Fine Arts. Her first exhibition, Faces, was the first female solo exhibition in Bhutan. It was about people and their way of coping with society by wearing different ‘Faces’.  She is currently working on a series of paintings that are an exploration of traditional Bhutanese pa...

RINA DHAKA – A name itself is enough - An Indian fashion designer who has been a dreamer ever since her childhood and for whom visuals were always more important than words. She is best known for her theme collections - sheer trousers, crochet, stretch jersey, woollens and spider web motifs. Western wear remains an area of dominance, though she also designs ethnic and conventional attires. She pri...

Shruti Mahajan is a visual artist based in Hyderabad. She has been interested in precarious structures and through them lived lives that navigate liminal and transient spaces, including but not limited to the border regions. Through material and media that suggest the fragility of these archives that emerge and dissipate — envelopes, inland letters, cardboard structures — she enters the fraught do...

Nishita is the principal architect of her award-winning namesake design firm, Studio Nishita Kamdar. She is also the co-founder of Pieces of Desire, an artisan based design studio exploring a seamless transition between art and functional objects with a conscious attempt to promote locally made products with a keen focus on details and craftsmanship. She is an alumni of Kamla raheja vidyanidhi ins...

Asim Waqif is an Indian artist based in New Delhi, whose work is influenced by interdisciplinary fields of art, architecture, ecology and design. Waqif studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. His recent projects have attempted a crossover between architecture, art and design, with a strong contextual reference to contemporary urban-design and the politics of occupyi...

Born in 1960, Seema Kohli has created her own niche in the world of contemporary art since past 35 years. Her creative repertoire is eclectic, encompassing a wide range of mediums ranging from painting, murals, experiential installation performances, films to installations, sculptures and each a unique expression of her style. She has over time has brought a synergy of her unique sensibilities and...

Niyeti Chadha (b. 1979, Dehradun) is a visual artist based in Bangalore. Her drawings, collages and sculptures document a constantly transforming urban landscape, in which spaces are dissected into formal elements that are reorganized and recombined in an attempt to discover new and imagined narratives within the built environment. The works act as a process of mapping spatial experiences from mem...

Bose Krishnamachari is an internationally acclaimed painter and Artist-Curator based in Mumbai , India. His work comprises vivid abstract paintings, figurative drawings, sculpture, photography, multimedia installations and architecture. Also, the founder member and President of Kochi Biennale Foundation and Biennale Director of international exhibition of contemporary art, Kochi-Muziris Biennale ....

Sunil Gawde is an Indian contemporary artist who has attracted considerable attention from the international art community. His work was shown at the Venice biennale, Centre Pompidou, Moca Museum, to name a few. The dichotomy between reality and perception is the leitmotif of Gawde’s art works. They highlight the absurd, paradoxical, and contradictory nature of life with visual dualities - soft vs...

Dhruvi Acharya is an Indian artist, known for her psychologically complex and visually layered paintings. In this one of a kind podcast, she'll be taking us through her life, education and the inspiration behind her art career.  MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographers and creative practitioners from all over the world. The podcast w...

Ina Puri is a writer, biographer, art curator and collector. She is the author of several books including In Black & White Faces of Indian Art and Journey with a Hundred Strings. In this one of a kind podcast, she’s reminiscing the life of famous Indian photographer, Nemai Ghosh as she remembers MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographer...

We are coming to terms with a whole new world – one that is brought to us by the eyes and the lenses of photographers across the world, that are risking their lives as much as our first responders out there. Reel is what’s real today thanks to them, telling us what's happening every minute and every hour of every new day, through their cameras. Photography is art, frozen in time – almost like...

MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographers and creative practitioners from all over the world. The podcast will feature leading figures from the arts who will lend their voice to deliver crisp and informative episodes. Subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts. In this episode, Dr. Subodh Kerkar, painter, sculptor...

MASH Podcast - Artist Series brings you an art podcast like never before! We invite artists to discuss their practice as well as prominent names from the art world lend their voices to discuss other artists and their works.  "MASH Podcast offers in-depth episodes covering various artists, designers, architects, photographers and creative practitioners from all over the world. The podcast will...