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Damini Parashar

Charcoal drawing: grey smoke-like forms rising over a dense black ground on cream paper

Damini Parashar

We all long for the sea

We all long for the sea

Stories of the ocean, and how its currents shape the land.

The artist sitting on a long hemp paper sheet painted with blue and teal natural pigment, on a dark ground

Framed charcoal drawing of dark rock-like forms with long leaves, on cream paper

A wall of eight framed hemp paper works with black charcoal patterns; a woman holding a cat stands in front

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Performance drawings

Drawing as an act of the body.

The artist drawing on a long sheet of paper on a red-tiled floor in a sunlit room, a man filming beside her

The artist standing in a dim hall, hands blackened, in front of a large symmetrical charcoal drawing on the floor

The artist seated on a large charcoal drawing, smiling, her hands and feet covered in charcoal

Performance drawing, charcoal on paper, 5×11 ft. Film by Viraj Singh.Watch the reel on Instagram

Deep Sea Diving

A ceramic installation.

Green glazed ceramic forms, like leaves or shells, laid across a long table

Close view of celadon ceramic forms with hand-pressed texture

Celadon ceramic forms with ridged and dotted surfaces on brown paper

The same clay and glaze now live in a studio of their own.

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The water will find its way

Small frames of clay and paper.

Twelve small dark-framed boxes hung in a row on a white wall, each holding paper and clay in blue, green and brown

A dark wooden box frame seen at an angle, holding a blue-green paper wing and a grey-green ceramic form on brown paper

Close view of a framed work: a turquoise paper shape and a grey-green ceramic form like a pair of wings, above a thin red-brown line, on brown paper

Close view: blue clouds above a long blue wave shape, with a green ceramic leaf and white shapes on brown paper

Close view: a small green leaf, a blue paper shape and a green glazed ceramic piece on warm brown paper

Dive

A landscape, in a few frames.

Framed landscape on warm brown paper: dark charcoal grasses and shadows, with a patch of gold leaf like a sun

Framed landscape with a bright gold band across the lower foreground and dark grasses

Framed landscape of low dark dunes, a small gold shape at the centre and tall grasses at the right

Framed landscape with a broad band of gold light above dark foreground shapes

A smaller frame showing the same landscape as the large one: a gold sun behind dark grasses

Wormulesis Gardenesis

A worm that feeds on memories of gardens.

Collage: an engraved figure with a bow beside a grey cut-out body with a red striped tulip for a head

Collage of two seated grey figures with a green leaf and a caterpillar where their faces and waists would be

Damini Parashar in her studio, a celadon ceramic piece held to her face, ceramic forms on the table in front of her

About

I’m an artist working in series, with ecology, memory and drawing as performance. I live and work between Delhi and Goa.