Indian Art Sparkling in Sydney

...‪Made this  private viewing happen-  a refreshing/sparkly art collection for the Patrons of ‪#‎visasia‬from the Art Gallery of New South Wales........Durva Gandhi  and Kumar Shah live between Mumbai and Sydney....Durva is a Jain and Kumar from a Vaishnava family..............Thank you to Elizabeth Chang #Visasia Art Gallery of New South Wales for organising this and ordering Bateta Vada (Potato mash Fritters) and Paneer Cutlets ( Cottage Cheese) with tamarind and yogurt-mint relish...Yum....... Matt Cox the assistant curator for Asian art at Art Gallery of New South Wales..led the talks. Attending were Jackie Menzies ( Prev curator of Asian art at Art Gallery of New South Wales), Dr John Yu ( prev Australian of the Year and an avid collector), Michael Brand ( Director Art Gallery of New South Wales) Warwick Johnson ( Chairman of #visasia at Art Gallery of New South Wales) Jane Wynter( Art Gallery of New South Wales), Simon Chan ( who runs Art Atrium)...........and many others....lovely to see Jitish Kallat, Sakti Burman, Francis Newton Souza, ( the picasso of India) in a domestic setting....

Matt Cox Asst Curator Asian art at Art Gallery of New South Wales with a Shree Nathji Pichvai. Shree Nathji is from the Vaishnava tradition and represents Shree Krishna as a 7 year old. He likes to be amused with colour, dance food music and more.Kumar Shah mother in Mumbai is a strict devotee and offeirngs of 56 varieties of food are usual / Main temple is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathdwara. Matt Cox also loved a Amit Ambalal work on paper. 

Durva Gandhi with Jane Wynter ( Art Gallery of NSW)

Me with Simon Chan ( Art Arium )

Margaret Ellis, Dr John Yu ( Prev Australian of the Year) and Durva

Kumar Shah with Michael Brand ( AGNSW )

Warwick Johnson ( Chairman Visasia AGNSW)

In the White Room

Some of the artists

Francis Newton Souza ( Picasso of India)

Jitish Kallat Work recently shown at Art Gallery of NSW

Sakti Burman