Lipika Sen and Prabhjyot Majithia
Lipika Sen and Prabhjyot Majithia, Jugalbandi in the Gardens, 2021.
Lipika Sen and Prabhjyot Majithia are contemporary international artists and conceptualists, based in New Zealand and India. For eighteen years the pair have been creating in spontaneous synchrony, often despite errant time-zones or geography. Their outdoor works include sculpture and installations, and also work in the mediums of paint, digital drawings, word, sound, music and film. They have won several awards for their animation. They bring wonder, relief, play and delight to their viewer, while addressing wider concerns of social, environmental and mental wellbeing.
Lipika and Prabhjyot have shown at events and galleries across New Zealand including the Whakatane Museum 2015, the National Fieldays No. 8 Wire Art Awards 2014 – Waikato Museum, the Tauranga Arts Festival 2015, Hamilton Garden Arts Festival 2016 and were specially commissioned by the Tauranga City Council in 2015 for an original mural.
Prabhjyot has a BFA (Delhi College of Art) and Lipika a BA with English Honours (Lady Sri Ram College, New Delhi) and a Masters in Linguistics (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi). Their works can be found in collections around the world and viewed on www.inhalingthespirit.com and www.hichki.com their ongoing online venture on creativity.
Awarded the Asia New Zealand Foundation Grant for the Belgadia Palace Art Residency in Mayurbhanj, Odisha, Lipika and Prabhjyot’s moving sculpture exhibition was shown in December 2020 to January 2021 at Studio One Toi Tu, Auckland: https://www.asianz.org.nz/arts/artist-inhales-mayurbhanj/
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