About The Portray : 45
This portray is impressed by the event of the artist turning 45 years younger. The artist’s title “Naina”, means “eyes’ within the Hindi language, which is the first language of her house nation. As a baby, even via school, the most-doodled artefact on her notebooks was a human eye. She’s all the time wished to color an eye fixed, however by no means fairly acquired round to it, until now.
The portray additionally represents awakening, opening of the third-eye and energetic development. The artist feels she has grown extra within the final two years mixed than within the earlier 42 years. Regardless of being fairly self-aware, open to studying and shifting ahead repeatedly, relentlessly, resourcefully.
When rotated 90 levels, the portray is also interpreted because the “yoni”, which is a Sanskrit phrase representing the Goddess Shakti, symbolizing creation, regeneration, and the union of female and masculine energies, consistent with the theme of the collection that this portray is part of. “Yoni” can also be a Sanskrit phrase for vulva or vagina, translating to “sacred cave” or “sacred area”.
This portray is out there to purchase straight from the artist from the net retailer. At present priced at AUD 1,800 + transport (transport inside Adelaide is free, please e-mail / textual content). Please contact the artist straight on e-mail [email protected] or textual content 0429048917
The portray is signed and dated and is accompanied by a Certificates of Authenticity.
Supplies
The artist makes use of acrylic markers to hand-paint every paintings. Acid-free gesso is utilized to the canvas earlier than she begins the portray. Some work have pencil sketches on high of which the artificial polymer paint is layered. Every portray is photographed previous to the appliance of varnish. A number of coats of high-gloss liquid, UV resistant, museum-grade, acid-free, non-yellowing varnish is utilized to the portray, and it’s completed with a number of layers of everlasting matte varnish spray, related in grade to the liquid varnish.
About The Collection
The rising discourse on gender, sexuality and identification, is what introduced forth this collection for the artist. Whereas the net world can seen as polarizing and swinging between the 2 extremes of centuries-old misogyny and newly-minted misandry, actual folks in actual life proceed to collaborate and construct lives of magical vitality. After posting a few brief movies on her Instagram web page, and after studying via and responding to hundreds of feedback, the artist feels just like the fervor has by no means been this in-her-face. She feels the vibrations from girls who appear to be coming into their very own, creating relationships with their divine and sacred selves, selecting to get to know themselves higher and unlearning the conditioning of needing a person of their lives. On the identical time, males appear to be coming into their very own as nicely. Breaking free from patriarchal sturdy holds, exploring their spirituality and honoring the female inside their masculine.
The lived experiences of each the female and the masculine are colliding. And never all the time in lovely methods. Regardless, there’s an vitality and a vibration across the artist that she has not skilled earlier than in her life.
She goals to deliver forth these vibrations in her work for this collection.
The title of the collection has not been labored out but.
About The Artist
Naina is a up to date artist primarily based in Adelaide, South Australia. That is the primary murals that she has painted in Australia. In India, she is represented by The Artwork Qurious, which is an Artwork Gallery primarily based in New Delhi.
Naina had her first gallery exhibition in August 2024. Her first ever artwork exhibit was in 2020.
To flick through Naina’s artwork, please see the Khaosphilos part on this web site.
For artwork acquisition enquiries in India, please e-mail Sangita Rajani of The Artwork Qurious on [email protected] and for artwork fee enquiries or gallery illustration in Australia, please attain out to me on [email protected] or textual content on +61429048917
The primary portray on this collection is titled “We Trip At Daybreak” and you’ll learn extra about it right here and buy it from my on-line retailer by clicking under. (Delivery inside Adelaide is free, please e-mail me on [email protected]).
We Trip At Daybreak, 2025. Artificial polymer paint on canvas. 90 cms diameter
$1,800.00
System Of Changing into, 2025. Artificial polymer paint on canvas. 90 cms diameter
$1,800.00
Pictures
The next images are self-portraits that the artist shot at a parking zone at Henley Seaside, which maintain particular significance to her. After her transfer to Australia, she made mates with one other woman and after a tough day at work, the buddy would drive the each of them to this parking zone, the place each ladies would strip to their underwear and run onto the seaside. This ritual will all the time be a particular reminiscence to the artist as a result of it was the primary time she felt free sufficient to do one thing like this. Particularly coming from an unsafe for girls nation to a rustic the place whoever the noticed the 2 ladies egged them on with “Go ladies!” as a substitute of commenting on their our bodies or harassing them.
