Born 1944, East Punjab, India
Painter and writer
Artist's statement
I come from a Hindu Brahmin background and from an ancient culture where art traditions are seen as a part of life ever evolving and ever changing. I was fostered and later married into a Scottish family and had all my formal education in Britain. This has given me an added dimension of experiencing British culture and art traditions. I have also travelled widely both in the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and Europe. It is this fusion of many cultures and values that is the strength of modern art in Britain, and I am proud to be a part of it. I see art as a force freeing people form narrow hide-bound beliefs controlled by religion, ethnicity and culture. It is this intermediate space between belonging and non-belonging that is important and that energises my work. When creative spirit is free and allowed room for growth individual inheritance contributes and enriches art traditions
Exhibitions
This Precious Place touring five art galleries;
Waterside Art Centre, Sale, 2 December 2006 to 12 February 2007
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, 17 April to 19 May 2007
Neo’s Art Gallery, Cockermouth, June 2007
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, 21 April to 14 June 2007 as part of International Women’s art festival
Portico Gallery, Manchester, September 2007
A new themed work of paintings celebrating life in Lancashire in Lancaster City Museum and Art Gallery in September 2008 and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery from 1 December 2008 to 31 January 2009.
I will also be travelling towards the end of 2007 for six months painting in India, Pakistan, Nepal and in other East European locations. This will result in a major themed exhibition entitled Hands On celebrating the lives of women who work with their hands in subsistence economies. It will be accompanied by a dvd of women’s songs filmed and recorded on location when women are at work. This exhibition is scheduled to take place at the Brewery Arts Centre as a major event in their International Women’s Arts Festival in 2009 and hopefully will tour widely both here and in European locations.
Contact details
Sundar Kanta Walker
The Studio
7 Morecombe Bank
Grange Over Sands
Cumbria
LA11 6DX
Phone/fax: +44 (0)1539 532 224
Email: sundar@artsk.co.uk
Website: www.artsk.co.uk
