The British Council welcomes to you a collaborative panel discussion with artists Indrapramit Roy and Mark Cazalet in partnership with Art Magnum in Kolkata on 10 April and New Delhi on 17 April. We are honoured to also have distinguished art critic Mr. Samik Bandyopadhyay at Kolkata and the renowned artist and Professor Gulam Mohammed Sheikh to New Delhi as guest speakers and moderated by independent curator Ritika Biswas in Kolkata and Prof Parul Dave-Mukerji in New Delhi. The event will also include a visual presentation related to the exhibition.
Event details for Kolkata – Friday 10 April from 6.00 p.m. onwards at British Council, 16 Camac Street, L&T Chambers, Kolkata – 700017
Event details for New Delhi – Friday 17 April from 6.00 p.m. onwards at British Council Theatre 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi – 110001
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About the artists
Indrapramit Roy is an artist, teacher, occasional writer and sometimes an illustrator. He studied printmaking (BFA) at the Visa-Bharti University of Santiniketan and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University, Baroda. Subsequently he was awarded the Inlaks Scholarship to study MA Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, which included a term each at Cite des Arts, Paris and HdK Berlin on an Erasmus Exchange Scholarship.. Indrapramit Roy has been teaching at his alma mater MSU of Baroda since 1995.
Mark Cazalet is a contemporary artist based in London and Suffolk, UK. He trained at Chelsea School of Art and then Falmouth School of Art for Degree level. He went to M.S. University Baroda for an eighteen-month Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholarship to study under Professor Gulham Mohammed Sheikh. Mark is a Senior Member of Faculty at The Royal drawing School and teaches at West Dean College, The Edward James Foundation, Sussex.
For more information please write to praveena.ireland@britishcouncil.org in Kolkata and stephen.john@britishcouncil.org in New Delhi.