Prakriti Foundation presented Exhibition of prints and lithographs by Manjula Padmanabhan Venue: Sundar Mahal, Padmavathy Road, Jeypore Colony, Chennai
Writer and artist, Manjula has illustrated more than 20 books for children. Her weekly comic strip Double talk appeared in the Sunday Observer in Bombay from 1982 to 1986. "Suki", a daily comic strip, appeared in The Pioneer in New Delhi from 1991 to 1997.
In 1985, she studied zinc-plate etching for one month at the Lalit Kala Akademi, Madras. In 1999, she entered the collaborative program in zinc plate etching and lithography at Atelier 2221, New Delhi and worked there for 2 years. The works currently on display are all from this period.
"Discipline, order and depth... they are the hallmark of Manjula Padmanabhan's etchings, which are meant to disturb and challenge."
- "Abstract images of life" by Vasantha Surya (The Hindu) |
October 26 – 31,
2002 at 6pm
As an author she has published "Hot Death, Cold Soup," and "Getting There." "This is Suki!" - a collection of her comic strips was published by Duckfoot Press, New Delhi in 2000. In 1997, her fifth play Harvest, won the Onassis Prize for Theatre. It was published in 1998 by Kali for Women, performed on stage and as rehearsed readings in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India. In 2001, it was made into a film Deham (Body) by Govind Nihalani.
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