About
Himani Gupta (b.1985) is a visual artist based in London. Her varied and non-conforming professional and education backgrounds, an extensive list of travel and experiments and the very vivid dreams she experiences feed her work and perspectives. Ideas relating to identity, place, ecologies and transience are explored in her paintings and drawings.
References from art history, film, Eastern mythology, South-Asia, personal archives, memory and stories form the bones and layers of her paintings. Landscapes, maps, bodies and looking at the spaces between objects is an essential layer in her visual language. Painterly techniques, drawing everyday, intuitive processes and materiality form an important part of Himani’s practice.
Her compositions - led by both imagination and observation, are built upon form, marks and colour, and involve processes of layering, excavating, mixing, scraping and assembling.
Himani has a masters in Urban Planning and Real Estate from The Bartlett, UCL. Most recently, she undertook a Drawing programme at the Royal Drawing School, London. A part of her artistic practice is also dedicated to socially engaged projects and academic collaborations. Some of these include projects and talks in the area of medical humanities, access to justice, political borders and borderlands, and working with children.
“I am interested in observing the movement of people through the eco-systems they create and occupy, and recording these experiences. This consists of built environment and physical spaces such as land and cities, and also of bodies, lines, organic forms and nature. The possibility of layering these elements, experiences and studies and expressing them through images drives my practice.” - Himani Gupta