INDRAPRAMIT ROY
(1964)
Indrapramit Roy was born in 1964. He studied for aBFA
(Printmaking) at the Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan in West
Bengal,followed by a MFA (Painting) at the Faculty of Fine Arts,
M. S. University, Baroda. After this he studied MA (Painting) at
the Royal College of Art in London (1990-1992). The switchover
from printmaking to painting was an important decision for Roy,
to be able to encompass a larger canvas of life where things
happen simultaneously.Like a change of scene, like a revolving
stage enabling you to move from one space to another - both
literally and metaphorically. Mixed media and collage were
incorporated, reflecting a concern with surfaces which could be
scored, rubbed, punctured or folded to involve a constant state
of decision making, layering and change. Clarity occurred at
random intervals in selected objects or symbols defined with
specific relish, creating a set of clues, which admitted a
sparse readability. The paintings remained, however,
repositories of memories, aspirations, dreams and desires
expressing a whole range of associative or opposing meanings.
Recently, he has returned to watercolour, imposing upon himself
a discipline that demands accountability of every stroke of the
brush, thereby minimizing chance happenings. With direct
reference to the experience of fatherhood, there emerges a new
landscape composed of the paraphernalia that surrounds a child.
In successive paintings, these images are reduced to
calligraphic bands of symbols, which persist beyond the field of
immediate perception, supportive strokes against which future
vistas of experience come into being. The artist lives and works
in Vadodara.
