My name is Akash Biswas. I am a visual artist from Andaman . I was born on 26 August 1997 in Diglipur from Andaman and Nicobar island. I completed my bachelor in painting from IKSV khairagarh 2019, and masters in painting from Ravindra Bharati University, Kolkata. 2022, the Period of 2019 was very difficult for me.

My art practice is about marine corals. And a few years ago when the covid pandemic was walking I noticed one thing in the sea. Some living corals were slowly dying. The reason for this is that some marine pollution results and because of some missile tests, these corals were slowly dying. Now, since I was involved with it since childhood, it struck me from a sincere heart, and from then on, I started working on it. And during this time many corals were destroyed in Andaman. I am so involved in doing this because Andaman is a tourist place and this is our livelihood.

As a creative person, the identification that Andaman has is slowly disappearing. The observations are worrisome because the islands are home to 89% of India's coral diversity According to the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), out of 478 coral species in India, as many as 424 species are found here alone. when day-to-day experiments are done on the ocean and many corals are broken deep down the ocean and I see that as a relation with our life.

Basically, my experience is very difficult for myself Because I saw only a few dead corals around, they were very difficult for me. And emotionally I became so connected to it that I felt like I was separated from my home today. Since then, a plan for this landscape came to my mind. From here, my landscape started with the corals.

Dhiraj Rabha was born in a pristine village named Borali Gaon, Assam, India, and grew up in an ex-ULFA detention camp in Goalpara, Assam. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 2016, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 2021. Later, he completed his Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

Gaurang Naik (b.1996) has completed his Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting from Goa College of Art (2019), and completed his Masters of Visual Art in Painting from M.S. University of Baroda (2021). Born and brought up in a village in south Goa, surrounded on one side by the iron ore mining hub and on the other by the ancient capital of Goa. His practice tries to evoke the idea of loss and transience. The collision between humans and nature; the consequences this interaction leaves behind in the form of textures, dust, and scars of traces in the surroundings is what captures his attention.

Recently, he has participated in the SAIL Mentorship Programme for Creative Practitioners at Sunaparanta Goa Centre for The Arts (2022), Students Biennale Workshop – “Unmaking conventions: Location as Resource” by Sanchayan Ghosh (2021). He has also been part of group exhibitions Sunaparanta Goa Centre for The Arts, India Art Fair, New Delhi (2022), HH Art Spaces, Goa (2022-23), 102nd The Art Society of India, Mumbai (2020); ‘Into the Vault’ with Goa Artist Collective at the Museum of Goa (2019).

He is also a recipient of the Late Milind Madhukar Bhade Gold Medal, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Vadodara (2022), Gujarat, Batch of 1990 award for best work, Goa College of Art (2019), Late Hanumant B. Neugi Memorial Prize, 44th State Art Exhibition Kala Academy, Goa (2019); Awarded 1st Prize, 43rd State Art Exhibition, Kala Academy, Goa (2018).

I'm a literature graduate currently pursuing an MA in Society & Culture, focusing on oral narratives and visual anthropology. You’ll find me immersed in all things arts, heritage, and culture-related. I’m always up for exploring new cities and discovering the hidden gems be it museums, galleries, second hand book stores or thrift shops.

Harun Al Rashid Mollah (born in 1997, Howrah) completed his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Painting from the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication at the University of Hyderabad, Telangana in 2023.

He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Painting from The Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, which he completed in 2021.

Harun's primary area of Interest revolves around exploring native cultures, cultural heritage, and the surrounding social ecosystem, observing how they transform in response to contemporary times.

In his recent artistic practice, he has focused on engaging with and understanding the caste and religious systems, as well as their pros and cons, while also examining their impact on the current socio-political

Lakshya Bhargava is a Visual Artist from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh and is currently based in Bangalore. He Completed his Bachelor’s Degree from Bengaluru School Of Visual Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath (2018-2022) in Painting.

His current practice is dealing with inquiries concerning his memories, fantasies, exploration of self, queer experiences, queer friendships and scenes of empowerment. They revolve around the ideas of invisibility, fragmented display of reality, and partial truths embedded in everyday conversations and life.

Malik Irtiza (Kashmir) is a visual artist whose work traverses across various media such as installation, video, sound, text and sculpture. Situated at the intersection of artistic speculation and historical enquiry, her work seeks to develop possibilities of looking at time and voids to articulate the questions of language, memory, everyday life and history writing in contested territories.

The work locates itself in the void(s), disrupted, incoherent, non-sensible, and de- ordered inarticulations. It takes recourse in folklore, storytelling, myth-making and local histories to open up discussions about fragmented time in contested territories. Irtiza is based in Srinagar, Kashmir.

Shikha Soni is a visual artist based in Baroda, Gujarat. Her art practice is an inquiry into the nature of the construction of the self and what it means to be human by excavating the interior spaces of one's home, family, childhood, and relationships.

She creates drawings and paintings while also photographing her primary subject - people. She completed her MVA from SNU, Delhi NCR (2023), and her BVA from MSU Baroda (2021). Her works have been exhibited in Kochi-Muziris Students Biennale, Kochi (2022-23)&(2021), Anant Art Gallery, Noida(2023) and India Art Fair (2023).

Surajit Mudi is an interdisciplinary practitioner working with alternative practices of photography within a variety of spaces. He has been exploring the idea of working with performative image-making practices in public spaces, and looks forward to studying the complexity of interactions, mobilities and publics with which alternative practices of image-making engender and converse. He currently lives and works in Santiniketan.

Umesh Singh is a visual arts practitioner, research scholar. Singh is a native of the Bihar village of Kurmurhi, which is close to the city of Aarah. He earned a Gold Medal in the subject of Printmaking in 2019 at University of Hyderabad.

In 2017 Umesh completed his fine arts bachelor's degree with a from subject painting from the Banaras Hindu University. He is currently pursuing doctors of philosophy from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in the research area of Ecological Arts practices in Indian Art of 21st Century (Rural Context). He as an artist likes to pursue work in intra-disciplinary art.