Sandhya Mulchandani Art

🖼️ Sandhya Mulchandani, Nightlight Fish, Paper mâché Sculpture, 49 X 48 X 20

🔸Artist Statement:

Smriti Sutra grows from the pull of memory, cultural lineage, and the quiet, tactile rhythm of paper mâché. The work begins with small remembered gestures and childhood tales that stay with me, held alongside the Gond visual language of pattern, rhythm, and interconnection that has shaped my way of seeing. These influences guide sculptures that explore how identity is formed, carried, and reimagined across time and place.
Working within this lineage, paper mâché becomes a slow, intuitive process—each form built through touch and layered accumulation. Its softness and resilience mirror the way memory behaves: fragile, persistent, and textured. As each figure finds its posture, it holds traces of both personal experience and inherited ways of understanding the world.
The themes that shape this body of work include memory as a living force, cultural inheritance, belonging, and the fluidity of identity shaped by movement across geographies. Folk motifs, spirited forms, and rhythmic patterning become ways of considering how stories travel with us, how they shift, and how they continue to root us even as we change.

👉 Website: www.sandhyamulchandani.com
👉 Instagram: www.instagram.com/sandhyamulchandaniart
👉 page: www.facebook.com/sandhyamulchandaniart
👉 MEET THE ARTIST: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A4aw4uCLq/

🎨 This artwork is presented as part of the Art in Adelaide SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ONLINE ART MARATHON 2026. 🎨

🖼️ Sandhya Mulchandani, Love Returns, Paper mâché Sculpture, 32 X 43 X 30

🔸Artist Statement:

Smriti Sutra grows from the pull of memory, cultural lineage, and the quiet, tactile rhythm of paper mâché. The work begins with small remembered gestures and childhood tales that stay with me, held alongside the Gond visual language of pattern, rhythm, and interconnection that has shaped my way of seeing. These influences guide sculptures that explore how identity is formed, carried, and reimagined across time and place.
Working within this lineage, paper mâché becomes a slow, intuitive process—each form built through touch and layered accumulation. Its softness and resilience mirror the way memory behaves: fragile, persistent, and textured. As each figure finds its posture, it holds traces of both personal experience and inherited ways of understanding the world.
The themes that shape this body of work include memory as a living force, cultural inheritance, belonging, and the fluidity of identity shaped by movement across geographies. Folk motifs, spirited forms, and rhythmic patterning become ways of considering how stories travel with us, how they shift, and how they continue to root us even as we change.

👉 Website: www.sandhyamulchandani.com
👉 Instagram: www.instagram.com/sandhyamulchandaniart
👉 page: www.facebook.com/sandhyamulchandaniart
👉 MEET THE ARTIST: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A4aw4uCLq/

🎨 This artwork is presented as part of the Art in Adelaide SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ONLINE ART MARATHON 2026. 🎨

Welcome to Timeless Indian Art Forms Episode – 5
Today’s topic is Tanjore art. A centuries old practice from Tamil Nadu that preserves temple aesthetics through layered textures and luminous detailing.

A glimpse into the vibrant creations from our Gond Art workshop in Goolwa — where every participant painted their own story in colour and pattern.

Welcome to Timeless Indian Art Forms — Episode 4!
Today’s spotlight is on Kalamkari, the soulful textile tradition from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

From natural dyes to mythic narratives, Kalamkari is not just painted — it is performed.

What a beautiful Saturday at Signal Point.
We explored Gond art, its roots, its rhythm — and then everyone painted a story of their own.
Live music, generous conversations, and brave storytelling made the room glow.
Here are a few moments from participants sharing the tales behind their canvases.

Only three seat left for workshop tomorrow https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1517414

You are invited, Saturday March 7 at 2pm!