Sculptor’s Notebook – Pushpamala N

Description

In ‘Sculptor’s Notebook’, originally written in 1985, the artist Pushpamala N evaluates the artistic practice that she had been developing until then. Centred largely around themes of adolescence and womanhood, her sculptures had won her the Sixth Triennale Award and the National Award. While the sculptures take centre stage, in this dissertation can be found a longing to move further towards performance, humour, and play-acting—themes that the artist would go on to develop over the following decades. Both an artist’s statement and a notebook-format prophecy, ‘Sculptor’s Notebook’ charts the motivations, struggles, and desires of the artist’s multi-medium practice.