Nirmala Biluka was born hyderabad, Andhrapradesh, on 5th November, 1980. She studied her Master of visual Arts (painting) from M.S.U., Baroda in 2005 and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from J.N.T. University, Hyderabad in 2002. Her achievements are being such as, JRF under UGC, 2006, Telugu university scholarship, Hyderabad, 2004, University Gold Medal during Under Graduation, Hyderabad art society award, 2003, ‘Best Painting award’ by police academy, A.P., 2002, ‘Best painting award’ at J.N.T.U. annual exhibition. 2002.
Nirmala Biluka coordinated a show “Cynosure” at ABS gallery, Baroda 2007 and participated in several group shows that includes, ‘Tryst with Telangana’ show at Sarjan art gallery, Baroda 2007, ‘Under Current’ group show at Shridharani gallery, New Delhi, 2007, ‘Modus Operandi’- show at ABS gallery, Baroda 2006, ‘Reposte’, a show at Sarjan art gallery, Baroda 2006, Group show at Srishti art gallery Hyderabad, 2006, ‘Translocal’, a Group Show, Baroda, 2006, Kanoria Art Centre, Ahmedabad – 2005, Group show at Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda – 2004, Group show at Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2003, Group show at Archer Gallery, Ahmedabad – 2003, Lakshana Art Gallery, Hyderabad – 2001, J.N.T.U. Gallery – 2001, 2002, Camlin Art Exhibition, Bangalore – 2000, 2005.
She Participated in Artists camp at Welham school Dehradun 2007, visited Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. Artists camp at Daman, 2007, Glass workshop at space studio, Baroda, 2006, Camp at kaleidoscope art gallery, Baroda, 2006, A.P. Tourism Art Camp, Hyderabad – 2002, Painting camp at Rabindra Bharati, Hyderabad 2001 and Student Workshop, Gulbarga – 2002. She is presently working in Space Artists’ Studio Baroda.
For Nirmala, ‘Image’ is the most significant ingredient in works of art. It is a ‘unique signifier’ of multiple meanings. In today’s Post-Modern art praxis, ‘images’ or ‘objects of curiosity’ become easily accessible at click of a button. Artists using/appropriating ‘readymade images’ (as she would like to call them) for their visual arena often perplexed her. But at the same time as an upcoming artist, there was a constant and innocent urge to follow ‘the trend’ or rather to ‘contemporize’ her own visual vocabulary. That is when she realized the power of an ‘image’. In this investigation she often employs images of objects around her and especially animals available from print media. But the real excitement ushers in when each object or image is related with another to create humor or punnery and bewilderness symbolizing current cultural conditions. The female protagonist, replicating her ‘self’, remains central in her “trance temporal space”. She is a performer as well as an observer/witness; watching/policing things happening around her with a vague attempt to control or direct them. She is often a ‘self representation’ in unusual costumes akin to sports attire, sometimes playing around casually, or as a traffic police signaling events to happen according to her will, or is simply meditating. The ‘images’ around her now do not remain hushed but start narrating and weaving stories; not necessarily sensible and comprehensive .They become ‘floating signifiers’ and ‘metaphors’ of the hidden consciousness. As Suzanne Langer puts it, for Nirmala, “Art is the objectification of feeling and subjectification of nature”.
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