Songlines FEATURED EVENTS

Inspired by Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, the workshop invites participants to reflect on how stories travel through land, body, and collective memory.

Working with natural and found materials, participants will create wearable and sculptural forms through slow, intuitive making. The session approaches art as a form of mapping where gesture, texture, and material choices carry traces of personal experience and memory.

Emphasising process over perfection, the workshop offers a reflective yet playful space for exploration. Through tactile engagement and mindful making, participants are encouraged to respond to materials instinctively and create forms that feel personal and embodied.

Designed as a calm and immersive experience, the session invites participants to slow down, connect with materiality, and explore making as a way of remembering, sensing, and storytelling.

About the Artist:
Soumitra Dasgupta is a New Delhi–based visual artist, production designer, and educator with over four decades of experience across advertising, television, film, and design education. A graduate of the Government College of Arts & Crafts, Calcutta, he has worked with leading organisations such as RK Swami/BBDO, TBWA, NDTV, National Geographic, and Sesame Street India (Galli Galli Sim Sim). He has taught at FTII, Pearl Academy, IIAD, and UID, mentoring students in visual storytelling and design. Dasgupta is also the author of the graphic novel Sri Ratna Kim Suro. His current practice centres on material exploration, storytelling, and object-based creative processes.

While you are here, explore the ongoing exhibition SONGLINES: Tracking the Seven Sisters