Kalamandalam Bindhulekha | |
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Born | Bindhulekha 18 October 1978 (1978-10-18) (age 46) |
Occupation(s) | Mural painter ,Dancer |
Years active | 2001 until the present |
Kalamandalam Bindhulekha is a mural painter and Mohiniyattam, Bharathanatyam dancer from Kerala state, India. She is the first woman mural painter in temple drawing from Kerala state.
Early life and background
Kalamandalam Bindhulekha is a diploma holder in Mohiniyattam and Bharathanatyam and has graduated from Kerala Kalamandalam. She took up mural painting, after having been attracted by the work of her brother-in-law, Sadanandan, a disciple of Mammiyur Krishnan Kutty Nair and was trained in the genre for six years.
Art career
Her debut work in Tiroor Vadakurumbakaavu temple in Thrissur is considered the first mural painting to be done in a Kerala temple by a woman artist. It took two years to complete the mural painting which consisted of three forms of Devi - Saraswati (in shades of white), Bhadrakali (in shades of dark blue) and Mahalakshmi (in shades of red). The painting was based on the theme "Rajas tamas satva".
References
- "Breaking into another male bastion". The Hindu. 9 October 2004. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- "A Dancer's Tryst With Colours". The New Indian Express. 19 September 2014. Archived from the original on 8 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- "The mural of the story". Deccan Chronicle. 22 July 2013. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- "Mural artist to display her paintings". The Hindu. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- 1978 births
- 21st-century Indian painters
- Painters from Kerala
- Malayali people
- Living people
- Indian women muralists
- Indian women contemporary artists
- Indian contemporary painters
- Mohiniyattam exponents
- Bharatanatyam exponents
- Indian female classical dancers
- People from Thrissur district
- Dancers from Kerala
- Women artists from Kerala
- Indian muralists
- 20th-century Indian women
- 20th-century Indian painters
- 20th-century Indian women painters
- 21st-century Indian women painters