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Holi Hai! International Residency review – Masood Sarwer
21 March 2023
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by hemalhttps://artcoreuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Masood-Final.mp4 Masood Sarwer Artist Residency: Holi Hai! Artcore and FORMAT Festival International Residency. Location: Gujrat, India Artcore residency has been very crucial for me to navigate and cultivate my artistic expression. It has allowed me to collaborate, learn and express my visual language like never before. It allowed me to create a dialogue and challenge […]
Read MoreKawant fair: A fair of Rathwa tribe of Chhota Udepur
13 March 2023
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Today is the day when the Kawant fair will mark an end to our residency with colours everywhere. You can find colours in the ice cream that the children hold in their hands in the mid-noon at the fair. You can find colours in the balloon which are tied together in a bamboo stick waiting […]
Read MoreRathwa Tribals Walk Hot Embers for Holi
9 March 2023
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by ArtistHoli Hai! Residency DAY 8 by Nikki Culley Thick white smoke filled the air as the burning logs turned to embers. An elder man from the Rathwa community we were visiting, emptied a bucket of manure at the end of a short length of the burning embers, to cool the feet of the group of […]
Read MoreHoli Hai! The festival of colour.
9 March 2023
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by ArtistHoli Hai! Residency DAY 7 By Masood Sarwer There is nothing more peaceful than waking up to peacocks calls. We all packed our bags and sat in the car to attend the Holi celebration in Vadodara. We crossed forests, open landscapes and farm fields and sunlight kept flickering through my window as I gazed and […]
Read MoreChasing Landscape Photographs in Rural Gujarat
9 March 2023
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by ArtistHoli Hai! Residency DAY 6 by Nikki Culley We loaded our camera bags into the car just as the daylight was about to soften. The daughter of the people who ran the home stay Yashwini was leading the trip with two friends from the kitchen who had a knowledge of the local area. They agreed […]
Read MoreThe colour of fire.
8 March 2023
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by ArtistThe day started by walking through the narrow alleyways of the corn field, crushing the newborn grass as my gaze was locked on the faded sky with no birds in the sky. The only way to find the bird at this time of the day was to see the high branches of long-standing trees and […]
Read MoreThe Flowering Tree
6 March 2023
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by ArtistI stand and take a walk in between the stitched landscape to find the things which are left unsaid and what I found is me, some wildflowers and chorus of withered leaves. Today, after a long stretch of days I found time to sit on a dew-covered stone in the morning. To my right, I […]
Read MoreMaking Banana Paper at Adivasi Academy
4 March 2023
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by Nikki Culley “Every dream has the right to live” – Mahasweta Devi, writer and trustee of Adivasi Academy Holi Hai! Residency DAY THREE: The day was heating up as we arrived at Adivasi Academy mid morning. Sandhya Gajjar, founder and trustee of Bhasha Research and Publication Centre – of which the academy is one department […]
Read MoreGolden Hour at Jamid Masjid Mosque
4 March 2023
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by Nikki Culley Holi Hai! Residency DAY TWO: It was golden hour by the time we reached the Jamid Masjid mosque. Earlier in the day we had made the journey from Vadodara city out to a homestay in rural Kadwal County. The pink spring blossoms of Boungainvillia trees covered the lawns around the mosque and peppered […]
Read MoreArtists meet documentary photographer JYOTI BHATT
4 March 2023
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by Nikki Culley Holi Hai! Residency DAY ONE: We walked through a white painted gate into a tiled front patio with rows of plants in terracotta pots. Hung to the right of the front door was a large metal sculpture depicting the repeated ‘head’ motif that documentary photographer JYOTI BHATT has become known for, […]
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