The ADFAS (Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society), Yarra Branch award.
FROM THIS ANCIENT LAND TO THE RIVER DELTA is an experimental interdisciplinary project that combines five mixed-medium banner paintings ranging in size between 70cm x 170cm to 200cm x 210cm and five Khadi fabric installations between 100cm x 110cm and 110cm x 700cm.
This interdisciplinary project employs an auto-ethnographic methodology that seeks to interrogate and cathartically examine my lifelong feeling of being the ‘other’, the ‘outsider’ in a Bangladeshi-Australian context. Using culturally significant folklore and materials such as fabrics and spice and employing a discursive approach, I aim to engage in the ongoing formation of a hybrid cultural identity drawn from a first-generation female immigrant experience.
Mita Chowdhury, ‘The Tiger and The Heron’, 2023, Mixed-medium banner painting. Photo: the artist.Mita Chowdhury, ‘The Tale of Mahuya (The Resistance)’, 2023, Mixed-medium banner painting. Photo: the artist.Mita Chowdhury, ‘Maa’, 2023, Installation incorporating native Khadi fabric, ground turmeric and hand-stitching. Photo: the artist.Mita Chowdhury, ‘Bornomala: Alphabet’, 2023, Installation incorporating native Khadi fabric, ground turmeric and hand-stitching. Photo: the artist.Mita Chowdhury, ‘Bornomala: Alphabet’, 2023, [detail], Installation incorporating native Khadi fabric, ground turmeric and hand-stitching. Photo: the artist.Mita Chowdhury, ‘Nodi-Fol-Pakhi: River-Flower-Bird’, 2023, Installation incorporating native Khadi fabric inscribed with fresh turmeric and hand-stitching. Photo: the artist.Mita Chowdhury, in the studio.
