A Reading Path Down a Rabbit Hole: N.S. Harsha
Selected conversations, interviews and profiles with and about South Indian contemporary artist from Mysore, N.S. Harsha
Profiles and interviews
- Tiffany Chung + NS Harsha at 21st Sydney Biennale 2018 (February 2019)
- Brilliant Ideas | Ns Harsha | Between Tradition and Imagination (April 2025)
- NS Harsha: ‘I am like a cook. I love to make a dish, offer it to the people, and wait for a reaction’ (studio international, April 2015)
Quotes & images
“One of my friends said that he saw the monkey painting (Raha Dikhanaywalay Thay Hai Rahengay (Path Showers Were/Are/Will Be There), 2013) and he drew a relation to the Indonesian temples in Bali where hundreds of monkeys have been carved. I haven’t seen them, but now I may go there because of that conversation, and I think that is beautiful.”
“The first figure that I draw will be somewhere in the centre – I won’t start from the top left – and that starts influencing the next figure.”
“When you pull an image out as a panoramic view, it gets very beautiful – there are so many other things that are happening. And it also helps me to be flat, as we discussed earlier. There’s a sense of flatness to it that gives me great comfort.”