Ela Mukherjee spends most of her working times in her studio in Delhi. But at times she goes as a visiting faculty to various art and design schools to teach. She has been trained in ceramics with a Fulbright scholarship in the USA and with a CWIT grant in the UK. She has participated in many exhibitions and artists residencies in India and abroad.
She is also a recipient of both Junior and Senior fellowships by Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. Ela Mukherjee’s work is about repetitive sequencing with separate elements to form a cohesive sculptural group. Though small in scale, once installed, they often command a large space. She loves to repeat a form as she finds this process meditative. It is the form which plays the most important role in her works.
She usually takes up a basic form: multiply it using different techniques. She is minimalist in using colour or glazes. Ela often explores the arrangement of her repetitive forms according to the available space, leading to variable layouts with the same multiplied small elements.
About the Artwork:
Title: Tapestry Of Whispers
Medium: Relief sculpture to be hung
The artwork celebrates womanhood- living a life of balance, priorities – a woman shaped by shifting terrains- familial, cultural, social and emerging as a strong independent identity. This is just not my story, this is a universal story of womanhood.
The drawings on the tapestry are like echoing whispers, low key, random – different life experiences weave a story of identity.