Shilp KalaaShubhangi Saxena

Projects

The drawings rarely stay on the wall.

They end up on the floor, in books, in other people's hands. Every project asks one thing of whoever comes. Come closer. Bend down. Stay a little longer than you planned.

2025 · Drawings, exhibition

Whispers on Bricks

Six months beside one boundary wall, watching moss settle where two bricks meet. Rain came and went. The moss dried to almost nothing and came back green, the way it has for longer than there have been walls.

The drawing keeps all of that. Go into it slowly, and listen for what the bricks are being told.

Shown at KaalChakra, Asylum Chapel, London, in September 2025.

A printed card titled Whispers on Bricks resting on handmade paper
A hand holding a print of a moss drawing
Poster for Whispers on Brick at KaalChakra, Asylum Chapel, London

2025 · Book and box · An ask of the city mosses

Watch Your Step

The title is the moss speaking. Watch your step. It is a small request from something that lives under your shoes.

The answer became a book and a box. Bound pages, loose plates, cards and field notes, all made to be opened slowly, out on the grass if you can.

Hands lifting plates from the City Mosses box on a table
The book held open over grass, showing a moss drawing
The Watch Your Step card beside the open box

2024 · Installation

On the floor

Drawings laid low among timber, paving, fallen branches and living moss. There is no way to see them standing up.

You crouch, the way you would over the real thing, and for a moment the gallery floor is a pavement after rain.

Drawings laid on the floor among timber, paving and moss
A gallery floor with a drawing on a low table and a branch
A long drawing draped over a low table with a branch above

2024 · Workshops

Making paper

Pulp, petals, leaves, and many hands in the same cold water. A sheet of paper turns out to be a small landscape too.

Everyone leaves with one they made, still drying.

Several hands pressing pulp into a paper mould
Handmade paper sheets with pressed flowers and leaves