Expanding Universe – Collector's edition box set

Name: Expanding Universe – Collector's edition box set
Brand: King & McGaw
SKU: 4103
Price: 1800.0 GBP
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Hormazd Narielwalla

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Size: 47 x 43 cm

This collector's edition box set of 15 giclee prints by Hormazd Narielwalla is a facsimile of the artist's installation at the Royal Geographical Society, London. An edition of 40, each print is signed by the artist. The print size is 40 x 45cm.

Expanding Universe is the title of a new body of abstract work made by Narielwalla using a set of intricate and complex tailoring patterns he acquired on his travels, in conjunction with research conducted in the archives of the Royal Geographical Society.

Two notable themes were spotted during the research conducted at the Society’s Collections. The first is a hand-drawn, coloured chart of the Red Sea used by an unnamed navigator from Gujerat, India, and presented to the Society by Alexander Burnes in 1836. This instantly stood out as when Hormazd was visiting the Society, India successfully landed a space shuttle on the South Pole of the moon.

The ships drawn on the map in the archive act as a metaphor for the Indian shuttle landing on the moon and the assumption that India’s space adventures will continue into the unknown. This also links with colonialism and how map-making in the context of geography was dependent on the Empire.

The second is the extraordinary drawings of monsters, sea creatures and mythical characters on 15th century maps. They were made with thoughts of exploring the unknown. The work includes both themes as they resonated with Hormazd.

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Hormazd Narielwalla

Hormazd Narielwalla (born India, 1979) lives and works in London. Since attaining a PhD in Fine Art from the University of the Arts, London (2014), he has gained increasing recognition for a practice that combines collage and drawing. He is particularly regarded for elegant abstract images that re-purpose vintage, antique bespoke tailoring patterns, that act as frameworks through which to express ideas about identity and migration, as well as exploring aesthetic principles of line, form and space.

Narielwalla’s first solo exhibition A Study of Anansi, was held in 2009 by Sir Paul Smith, London and subsequent solo shows include Lost Gardens , South Bank Centre, London (2016) and Rock, Paper, Scissors, Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts, London (2020). He won the Paupers Press Print Prize at the UK International Print Biennale in 2016 and in 2018 he was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum to make prints to accompany the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up.

His on-going series of artist’s books publications have won awards including Best Limited Edition & Fine Binding prize at the British Book Design Awards and the Fine Art category at the UK Print Week Awards (Paper Dolls, 2018). In 2020 Narielwalla's artist’s book Rock, Paper, Scissors was shortlisted for the prestigious Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. In 2021 he released Diamond Dolls a series of original collages, lithographs and an artist's book inspired by David Bowie.

Narielwalla’s work is held in numerous international private collections and public collections including the Ben Uri Museum, British Library, National Art Library and TATE Archive, V&A and Yale Centre of British Art. He has collaborated on major commissions for Banda Property, Four Seasons Hotel, London; Hyatt Regency, London; and the Vertus Building, Canary Wharf. An extensive permanent collection of his work can be viewed at J.P Hackett, Saville Row.

www.narielwalla.com