Tk Muralidharan

T K Muraleedharan

I have been living in Mumbai city for the last 25 years, designing hand-painting for garments. Somewhere along the line, the garments turned into canvases. Churidars, dhupats, sarees, kidswear.. a city that evolved through dresses were revealed to me. If in garments, you draw what the customer wants, when they turn into canvases I could draw whatever I felt like.

My workshop is the long corridor of this city, a gully where blood, sweat, oil and grease all mix and flow. The days, nights, and people slip through this...

One can describe my scribbles and doodles as the efforts or ways adopted by a tiny drop in this ocean of people to reclaim and reinscribe itself. It happens in the most spontaneous and unbiased manner, like a fish coming up to the surface of the water to breathe air and plunging back to its depths.

The choice of garments is intricately linked to each individual’s choice of colors, design, etc. Many people with no apparent or even distant connections with painting or art are very smart when it comes to the choice of dress. That color sense alone is enough for them to go to any gallery and appreciate art.

The city that streams through many colorful costumes has always inspired me. I have...

Born in 1972, Malappuram Dist.,Kerala
Solo show: FIX2009, Hirji Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Second show 2012, Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Machinoscapes 2013, Durbar Hall, Ernakulam Kerala.
Dry Depictions 2015, Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
Lokame tharavdu 2021, Kochi Binannale.