Born: 14th May 1965 in Vasco, Goa
Education: Graduated from the Goa College of Art in 1986
Rajeshree Thakker is a Goa based artist working for more than twenty five years. Her oeuvre reveals an artist who through the years, has gone through a gamut of abstraction and figuration – finally arriving at a collage of the sensual and conceptual. In recent years she has increasingly worked on a variety of surfaces besides canvases, exemplified in shrines which focus and aid spiritual contemplation. Made of wood the multiple doors of the shrine open out and fall back on each other, now covering, now revealing the painted surfaces. The integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo – particularly his epic poem: Savitri, Buddhism and haiku and an interest in mythology and literature from various parts of the world are what form the backbone of her thematic preoccupations. Walking the tightrope between instinct and reason, Rajeshree fuses spiritual themes with the elements of design to portray multiple aspects of the self in relation to the world.