Swagata Bose
The ‘ EYE ’ in My Art
Art is understood and finds meaning when a lifetime is spent in pursuing the mind and the thoughts within the artist in solitude in harmony with nature.
Every painter follows life and aspires in his lifetime to create a body of work which imparts pulsating life with great art. I consider myself to be an artist with a mission ,challenging my creative thought process to stretch beyond its comfortable zone My creative satisfaction is derived from delivering something new and fresh.
I also believe that I would want to document the times to which I belong as a true artist, trying to capture images I see in subjects and objects that intrigue my point of interest. I strive to look for “the moment” in time which withholds the tension, emotion, movement in my creative space.
My forte is figurative drawing in contemporary style ,a style I have adapted true to my nature and hope will stand its own. I don’t always follow the narrative but tend to create a body of work on the subject I approach with fervour.
My interest at that point becomes the subject reacting to light, the lines, the dramatic intermingling of colours, though my pallete is more often of a monocromatic toneage, a subtle composition obtained therefore to give the moment in the painting almost a lifelike space.
Academics
- BFA from Delhi College of Arts in 1989
- Certificate of Merit from Delhi College of Art & Bronze Medal in 1986
- Recipient of Bharat Nirman Awards 2011 for Creative Art.
- Art Residency and Art Exhibition (23rd July 2012) at ARTFUNKL, Manchester, UK-June 25th – July 25th, 2012.
Work Experience :
- Worked as freelance illustrator in Advertisement agencies like Delta Advertising, Capital Advertising.
- Design Studios & Magazines like India Today, Down to Earth
- Publishing Houses like Vikas, Star Publishers
- NCERT National Award for Illustrator for Children Literature 1994-95
Collection :
Private Collectors : India and abroad, Projects for Tata Metaliks, National Stock Exchange & Vikrant Forge Ltd.
Participations
- 1995 Group show at the Midnight Art Bazaar in Park Hotel, New Delhi
- 1996/2000 Shows at Art Konsult, New Delhi
- 1998 Group show at Damns Art Gallery, Kolkata
- 1999 Group show at ABN Amro Bank, Kolkata
- 2001 Group show at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
- 2003 Group show at Gallery Ganesh, New Delhi
- 2003 Group show at Chittaranjan Memorial Hall, New Delhi.
- 2004 Solo show ‘Enlightened’, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
- 2005 2007 – Group shows with ‘The Group’ at the Academy Of Fine Arts and Palladian Lounge, Kolkata
- 2006 – Group show with The Group at Gorky Sadan on ‘Peace’.
- 2007 – Group show at Samakol Art Gallery.
- 2007- Group show at Academy of Fine Arts.
- 2007 – Solo show at Taj Bengal, Kolkata.
- Group show -The silver jubilee of The Group’ at The Academy Of fine Arts,Kolkata – 2009.
- Group show- at The Art Gallery’ ITC Sonar,Kolkata with the group Spandan – 2010.
- Group show- at The Academy Of Fine Arts,Kolkata with the group Srijan – 2010.
- 2011 – Solo Art Exhibition’La Venus- The Being and The Body in ITC Sonar Kolkata.
- 2012 – Solo Art Exhibition of “TALSARI” at Taj Bengal, Kolkata.
- 2012 (March) – Participation in workshop “Rabindra Chinta” with contemporary artists commerating 150 years of
Rabindranath Tagore. - 23rd July 2012 – Solo Art Exhibition “SILENCE FINDS AN EXPRESSION -The moments in time” in ARTFUNKL,
Manchester, UK. - 4th-11th March, 2013 – Solo Art Exhibition “Paintings by Swagata Bose” – Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal, Kolkata.
- 2014 Group shows Roymans and Sreejan
- 2014 April Metal & Brush, Ador House, Mumbai – Swagata Bose & Shankar Ghosh.
- Exposition of Art, hosted ITC Sonar, Kolkata and Renu Roy with Keshab Roy, 10th October, 2014.
- 2015-2019- Group shows with Moner Milan.
- 2020- Participating Artist in Group Online International Art Exhibition ‘TANGIBILITY OF TIME’ by CTG Club, Bangladesh.