Nasreen Mohamedi was a key Indian artist creating non-figurative work in the early decades after Indian independence in 1947. Trained in Europe and widely travelled, the influences behind her spare, poetic and evocative drawings and photographs ranged from Kandinsky and Malevich to the dunes of the desert.
Mohamedi is known for her precise drawings, works composed of straight black lines ruled over grey cell-like grids of graph paper. This meticulous work was articulated through intertwining planes and grids. Often inspired by an experience of nature, Mohamedi experimented with creating different structural systems so that a particular natural phenomenon might open out to reveal an inner matrix. The onset of a degenerative illness did not allow for a prolific and acknowledged practice during her lifetime.
Nasreen Mohamedi also produced a small but significant body of black-and-white photographs. As with her drawings, composition was a key formal element. The shadowed lines of the steps in a courtyard, the patterns on a road, or the line in the sand on a washed beach provided the material basis for Mohamedi’s formal aesthetic.
Her work was featured at the 'Third Indian Triennale 1975' in New Delhi. Although her work has never been exhibited in Australia, it has been shown in France, the United States, India and England.
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