Events - Blow Horn - Signs and Life in India
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Blow Horn - signs and life in India - a solo exhibition of oils and original prints by Natasha Kumar inspired by Indian advertising
Natasha Kumar is an established Anglo-Indian artist from a long line of well-known English artists and an old Kashmiri family. She is inspired by the advertising that is painted on all Indian walls and how the advertising is a part of everyday life.
‘BLOW HORN’ IS THE IMPERIOUS ADVICE to drivers painted on the back-end of Indian Lorries, buses and rickshaws. A warning and encouragement, its one illustration of a mindset that considers every flat surface a potential canvas. In India If it stays still long enough to be painted, it will be, with a graffiti of spiritual texts, underwear ads, personal and folk expression.
