Gunjan Shrivastava

Born and raised in Allahabad, Gunjan Srivastava is a contemporary visual artist currently based in Mumbai. Imbued with passion for the slow and conscious art Gunjan’s work interweaves the age old technique of cyanotype with the meditative moments of slow stitching. Bringing an inimitable and a fresh response to our fast paced digital world, her signature works embraces mediums that evoke visual curiosity inducing the viewer to see art individual perspective.
Her engagement with issues relating to sustainability drives her to explore cyanotypes, documenting decaying leaves in their natural form while attempting to restore the belief in redemptive restoration and emboldening better environmental practice to reclaim what is degraded, damaged and destroyed. Gunjan explains “Experimentation is a major part of my work as I enjoy working intuitively, giving myself the independence to change my subjects and my mediums from time to time. Trained in a traditional format, I started out with conventional methods and mediums of painting but years down in this journey as an artist, I found the pleasure in conceptualizing new stories through my cyanotype processes with other diverse mixed media techniques. My mediums do not go by the books or ...

P.hd in Visual Arts, Masters in Visual Arts.