UK registered charity 1121118
February 2010
Sunita Maharjan was born in 1986 and lives Kirtipur, a small town in the south west of Kathmandu Valley. From 2006 to 2009 she studied for a Bachelor of Arts at Kathmandu University Centre for Art and Design (KU). In 2008 she was one of only eight students chosen from KU for the Ned-Nep project - a student exchange programme with Gerrit Rietveld Academy and KU. In 2010 she was one of the first two artists to be offered a residency at KCAC.
“I am interested in line, color and form. I see
the form of an object rather than its function.
I feel the rhythm of life through colors. In my
BFA solo exhibition last year, I worked with
line as the continuity of life and the essence
of nature. I captured the movement of each
moment through line.
LOCUS OF CONTINUITY
BFA solo exhibition 2009
Although my main medium is painting, I like
to experiment with other materials. In 2008
& I worked with different mediums. One work
I made on the Ned-Nep Project in 2008 in
Nepal was “Never Ending, where does human
creation meet nature?” I covered a tree with
weaving from straw and different colored plastic
strips. Six months later in the Netherlands, I
worked on another tree, wrapping the branches
with different colored threads. Then I took close
up pictures which I printed as A3 digital prints &
arranged them on a large wall.
My other interests are weaving and stitching. 7 years ago I learnt tailoring which influences my work. Two
works I made “Pata” and “Cloth as a jewellery” were
based on sewing and stitching. Pata is a long religious
object onto which religious symbols are painted. It is
then hung on chariots during festivals. In my work I
painted contemporary logos on long strips of fabric
and attached two small bells as a holy object.
In the KCAC residency programme I will be painting.
This is my recent work. It is the experience when I went to a
wool shop and I bought some wool and made balls. Then I drew
movement of my hand and body.
This is another painting. It is about the experience of my art class
where I gave square black paper to children to practice lines in
colour – it is a new project and soI cannot explain it completely yet.
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Sunita Maharjan
scholarship artist 2010
