Author Topic: Daniel Connell – Art Exhibition of Sikh Youth in Australia (Read 884 times)

AmRind③r · « **on:** June 10, 2012, 02:34:12 AM »

Daniel Connell, an artist from Adelaide Australia met Lakhvir Singh in a Taxi… a chance meeting. He was touched by the gentle manner of Lakhvir Singh and the nobility in his personality. Lakvir drives a Taxi in Australia to sustain his studies for which he came to Australia. The whole discourse motivated Daniel enough to visually express the Sikh Community in Australia.

A regular visitor to India, Connell is also bowled over by Indian hospitality and graciousness. Back in his hometown, Adelaide, his artwork is being appreciated and the drawings are being perceived as a celebration of local history and cross-culture friendship. The project has won a prize from the University of South Australia and a short film on it is being made by the Australia Network Television Arts Program. It will be screened next year in 44 countries across Asia, including India.

The portraits have been sketched with charcoal on paper. Reflecting a sense of immediacy, the life-size mixed media work, with masking tape, projects the vulnerability of these people, the challenges faced and the obstacles that they need to overcome. This series of 5, 3m x 1.75m portrait drawings makes the portraits larger than life and intends to capture something of their bold and heroic faces. They are drawn with an energy and honesty reflecting empathy between artist and subject.

Daniel Connell - Art Exhibition of Sikh Youth in Australia

Author Topic: Daniel Connell – Art Exhibition of Sikh Youth in Australia (Read 884 times)

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Daniel Connell – Art Exhibition of Sikh Youth in Australia

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