Title: Jayam

Year: 2024

Media: Acrylic on plywood

Size: 35.7 x 28 x 1.2 cm

About the work: Celebrating architecture without architects, this relief painting extracts a geometric detail of a colourful self-built house documented on the artist's road trip in her native Tamil Nadu, India. A region known to have inspired Ettore Sottsass, the artist dialogues with her received knowledge of Eurocentric design history vis-a-vis a flourishing contemporary vernacular in South India.

Bio: Vasundhara Sellamuthu (b.1989) holds an MA Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School (2021) and BA in History of Art from Goldsmiths (2013). She was Stellar International Art Foundation's Emerging Woman Artist of 2022 and was awarded The Useful & Beautiful Project by Urban by Nature in 2020. Show participations include 'Whim-Wham,' 1B Window Gallery, London (2024), 'Rinse & Repeat,' Hypha Studios at Sugar House Island, London (2024), ‘Cite,’ Lea Bridge Library, London (2023), ‘Common Ground&,’ Copeland Gallery, London (2021), and 'Distant Fellowship - Morris and South Asia,' William Morris Gallery, London (2021). She lives and works in London.