'Moon girl' by Debjani

Artist Statement - Moon girl

Art print on acid free paper. 1/1

Artist Biography:

Debjani was born in Kolkata, India  and completed her Masters in Business Management at Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi , India . She started her career as a financial analyst in New Delhi. She later moved to the field of art in the year 2000  and completed MA Fine Arts at the Open College of the Arts, UK. She is a  multidisciplinary artist and expresses herself through sculpture(ceramics,  paper), illustration, papercuts and printmaking. Working with her hands fascinates her and she prefers tactile, labour intensive, process-oriented methods of creating. She is a visual storyteller and loves stories with a certain element of surprise.

She had her first solo exhibition "Spindle Shuttle Needle" in Tashkeel House Bastakiya in 2011. Her second solo exhibition “Seeing the Invisible” was held in 2014 in Centre Franco Omanais, Muscat and her third solo exhibition  “Telling Tales” was held in Tashkeel Gallery in 2018. 

Debjani has participated in over 70 international group exhibitions in prestigious art galleries like Stal Gallery (Muscat), Gallery Sarah (Muscat), Bait Muzna (Dubai) and XVA (Dubai). She has illustrated two children's books "World Tales "a book of folk tales written by the students of Dubai International Academy (2009 ) and "A Magic Place" a book of short stories used by middle school children in India (2010).