Artist: Malavika Mandal Andrew

Malavika Mandal Andrew (b.1971) is an artist whose practice includes mixed media, digital collage and digital art, tapestry and other fibre art. She received her BFA and MFA from Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.

During her time at Kala Bhavana she was awarded the National Scholarship by the Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development and did her training under Riten Mozumdar. In 2012 the artist was awarded "The Pollock Krasner Foundation" grant and in 2023 she received Senior Fellowship from CCRT Ministry of Culture of Government of India.

In 2021, Malavika became the first Indian artist to be listed in the Techspressionist Artist Index.

In August 2021, she founded Collaborative Art Space, an international art organization that conducts collaborative art projects.

She has participated in numerous solo & group, national & international shows.

The inspirations for my creations are the "elements of life" and the idea of "us"; how we are all linked, dependent on each other as well as with technology. My work deals with this inevitable transition in life, whether in the personal, social, environmental or political spheres, taking place due to changing needs.

Planning never works very smoothly in my life and at the same time this unsuccessful planning takes me to reach the next. In 2015, due to too much running around, I started drawing on a small art book. In which each page drawing is connected to the next page just like our life. The emotional or mechanical experiences, thoughts, relations and responsibilities gave me multiple expressions, dreams and a desire to live ahead. These layers of links, which were sometimes from known or unknown sources, have blended so well that it becomes difficult to get a trace of when and how it happened. My work captures the movement of life through its different ups and downs; its smooth & sharp paths. My process combines layers of photography, scanned drawings, and computer editing, etc. capturing all of my conscious, unconscious and subconscious thoughts and transforming them into my artwork.

This artwork was exhibited in the 2025 mowna Biennial, from May 1 through September 28, 2025 at mowna.org. 70% of the sale will pay the artist for their work, with the remaining 30% funding the museum.