Introduction - Artist Sarita Dongol Artist Sarita Dongol is a freelance visual artist from Nepal. She also runs a gallery and coordinate art events in order to promote art and create social awareness in the society. In her twenty years of career. She has found that so much can be done through creativity to uplift the surroundings, culture and the overall social awareness in the country. Through various art events and especially by conducting community art projects for little children inside and out of the Kathmandu valley, she has attempted to achieve the objective of promoting art and raise social awareness through creativity. Exhibition Sarita has done 11 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in Nepal and abroad. She has also participated in art residencies in Japan 2002 and S. Korea 2006. She has coordinated various art projects for artists and general public, especially for community children through various art organizations. Presently, She runs a community children art school, which is an organization completely dedicated to uplift the creative imagination of the young ones. Message from Artist Sarita Dongol This exhibition 'Voices of Nature' is one of my ambitious projects, because showcasing my artworks in Australia is like blending with a new perspective towards life. The attitude, culture and art phenomenon here are different from what they are in Nepal. And, as an artist, I have a nature of finding the creative fragments in my surroundings and rearranging them in order to reveal and express the hidden and deeper purpose of my life. So, since this is my first exhibition in Australia I believe it will make me a better artist. Here, through this event I want to take this opportunity to introduce the art and the aura of Nepal from a creative viewpoint. The foremost objective of this event is to create a platform for creative dialogue between Nepal and Australia. Immobile objects really fascinate me -- objects like plants, fruits and vegetables. I feel that nature is part of our life and that we, as humans beings, share a special bond with it. What I feel towards these objects has motivated me and has influenced my creativity, has filled me with a sense of enthusiasm, which is explains why I prefer these subjects over others. I believe that immobile objects also go through various sensations and emotions such as happiness, pleasure, pain, fear and satisfaction just as we humans do -- the only difference being that they don't have the ability and the capacity to express them. Basically, my art is an effort to link the hidden yet significant messages that these immobile objects are trying to share with us. And through my own language of art, I have tried my best to portray it. I want art lovers who come to the exhibition to go home with a positive message. I feel nature is more powerful than us. With their unique character, color, forms and different tastes, natural objects stand out. Unlike humans, they aren't selfish -- they provide us with food to fill our stomach and fresh air to breathe. In various ways, they try to give a positive message to us but we tend to ignore it. Through this exhibition, I hope to convey this message to art lovers and maybe make them acknowledge the fact that we are here because of them. In this series of artworks I have made an effort to link the hidden but significant interrelation between various immobile and mobile life forms. I have expressed this relationship through my personal language by assorted colors, shades and images, composing all of them on my canvas.

• published: 21 Aug 2013
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