A Reading Path Down a Rabbit Hole: Sid Pattni
Selected conversations, interviews and profiles with Australian-Indian painter Sid Pattni
Profiles and interviews
- “Culture is never static. It’s constantly refracted, reshaped, and renegotiated” - Sid Pattni on Hybridity, Memory, and Culture (Written by Ann, Prazzle Arts)
- Sid Pattni (Written by Paridhi Badgotri, January 2024, Platform Magazine)
Quotes & images
Pattni is “London-born, Kenya-raised, Melbourne-based, Indian descent” creating art in “painting and embroidery” mediums
His work focuses on “the way colonial histories shape self-perception and the tension between inheritance and erasure”
His paintings use techniques “from Mughal miniatures, Company paintings, British botanical illustrations, and Indian textiles”… “and reconfigures these visual languages into composite forms that acknowledge hybridity and distortion.”
“Why Australia Can’t Look Away From Sid Pattni” (32 minutes)
“I rob the face of any sort of features that resemble anything we can pinpoint into now.”