ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bio
Munisha Gupta is a London-based artist, working across painting and drawing. Born in Agra, India, she has lived in India, Nigeria, and the UK. After studying Accounting and Law (B.Com from GND University and an LLB from Westminster University, 2001), she turned to art, most recently completing an MA at City & Guilds of London Art School. She was selected for the RA Summer Exhibition 2023 and showed her work in the Young Masters Exhibition at The Exhibitionist Hotel, London. She is also a member of The Holborn Group and The Rookery Artists Collective.


Artist Statement
My art practice aims to explore an understanding of everyday life that I sense is often overlaid with shadows and ambiguities. I am profoundly interested in the medium of paint and the experience of the acts of painting as immersive. 
I use swells and swirls of colour and gestural marks, aiming to comment on the energetic nature of life and emotions; they act as a sense of instant release and suggest a primal need for movement and colour. 

Using paint as a tool, and moving colour on the canvas, I 'feel' my way towards something. My time spent reflecting on colour and the energy of experiences, people, and my relationship to those people shape my approach to each work. I am interested in how elicited memories can be reworked, and how certain applications of paint can provoke a sense of memory and loss, lack and abundance, despair and hope, fragmentation and continuity, helplessness and control as well as mood and atmosphere. Above all, an overriding sense of melancholy, yet optimism also pervades my work.