Divyesh Bhanderi
b. 1979 England; lives and works London.
 
 

 

  
 

 
 
Amaranth, 2006, mixed media

Divyesh Bhanderi’s large-scale ink and acrylic drawings are made using a system of custom made drawing devices that resemble the tools in spirograph sets used by children. But his intricately rhythmic, musical compositions and painstakingly precise abstract designs draw on Kandinsky, Sol Lewitt and his own Indian heritage and bear a sophistication at odds with this nostalgic association. Through an ostensibly mechanized process, Bhanderi plays with the notion of his artistic identity, allowing this to become subsumed by his methodology yet embracing accidental movements or changes in pressure as moments of uniqueness or inimitability. His paint sculptures also are reminiscent of these drawings in that they convey similar patterns on their skin, but their form – wooden frames filled with a thickly viscous paint mix - is inherited chiefly from the natural forces of gravity that govern their final protuberant, fecund forms as they solidify and dry.

Bhanderi graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in 2005 and went on to become Artist in Residence at the RA Schools Gallery for 2005-6.

 
 
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2006 The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition selected by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst; Divyesh Bhanderi & Brian Mulvihill, Royal Academy Schools Gallery, London; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Pêche à la Ligne, Brittany, France; New News from Nowhere, William Morris Gallery, London; 2005 Salon de Freehands, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2005, London; Graduating 5, Platform for Art Piccadilly Circus, London; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London; MABA, Art Fortnight, London; Royal Academy Schools Show, London; Nationwide Mercury Music Art Prize, Air Gallery, London 2004 Christmas Show, OwenTaylorArt Gallery, Warwick; Magic Don't Happen By Magic, The Empire Studios, London; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London; PizzaExpress Prospects, Tea Building, London; Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Art School, Bloomberg SPACE, London; 2003; Sound of the Suburbs, Woodlands Art Gallery, London; Rude, New Inn Gallery, London; To Boldly Go, Saddleworth Museum & Art Gallery, Uppermill; 2002; FutureMap 02, The London Institute Gallery,
London; 14 x 14, Century Gallery, London; Another Like The Other - Century Gallery, London; PizzaExpress Prospects, Essor Gallery Project Space, London; The Magic of Doing, Andersen, London; Showcase II, The London Institute Gallery Millbank, London; Save or Delete, Notting Hill Arts Club, London; On The Way There, Century Gallery, London; The Higher Education Funding Council for England, Bristol; 2001; Knowledge is an Organisations DNA, Arthur Andersen, London; Small Worlds, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London; 2000 Millennium Show, Saddleworth Art Gallery, Uppermill; 1999; Six of the Best, Saddleworth Art Gallery, Uppermill AWARDS 2005 Gordon Luton Award for Fine Art; St.James Homes Fellowship; Nationwide Mercury Music Art Prize 2004 The London Original Print Fair Prize, Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2001 Knowledge is an Organisations DNA Prize, Arthur Andersen, London COLLECTIONS Ernst & Young; Arthur Andersen Collections; Mizuho Investment Bank Collections; Baker Botts Collections; Nationwide Mercury Music Prize Collections; Private Collections, UK & USA