Friday, 11 January 2013

Kirath Ghundoo

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Kirath Ghundoo is a surface designer based out of Northern England. She launched her first wallpaper collection, 'Mix n Match 11' at 100% Design, a design conference, last september. Kirath graduated from Leeds College of Art in 2006 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) in surface pattern and textile design. In January 2011 she went on to graduate from Huddersfield University with an MA in Textiles, scoring a distinction.
Kirath primarily works within a digital format.The wallpaper is a juxtaposition of mercurial pastel hued geometric prints that can be mixed and matched, making it eclectic in styling. The rolls are designed to be applied in a 'drop, cut, paste' technique that make it more sustainable , while limiting wastage. An element of surprise is added in how they can be combined, making it schizo fabulous.
Kirath also designs fashion fabrics, iPhone sleeves , magazines and lampshades to name a few. Her collections are represented worldwide through a number of stockists in Paris, Germany and New Zealand. 

Rajni Perera

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Rajini Perera's paintings focus intensely on the female body's form, drawing heavily from south asian miniature painting traditions and combining them with the strange and psychedelic. Her foray into visual psychotropia is embellished with indian goddesses eschewed from their ornate backdrops and pitted against stark white frames, while riding on dinosaurs. In another of her works, a voluptuous brown woman adorned in golden panties has her innards on display as her layers are literally peeled back like that of a Russian doll.
Sri lankan born Rajni Perera, is Toronto based. Her Art explores issues of hybridity, sacrilege, irreverence, Indexical sciences and ethnography, sexuality, popular culture, deities and monsters. She says they are, "Intensely labored and immaculately conceived. Spiritual and whimsical, a pooja and a porno at the same time."