Frame size: 71.0 x 54.6 x 3.1 cm
Nirmala Dutt (b. 1941, Malaysia) was one of the most prominent artists to have emerged in Malaysian art scene in the 1970s. After her relocation from Penang to Kuala Lumpur in the early 1960s, Dutt attended painting classes with artists of Angkatan Pelukis Semenanjung (APS) founded by Hoessein Enas. In a lifelong pursuit of education spanning across decades, Dutt studied art, art history, psychology and printmaking in various art schools in the U.S. and UK. Eschewing the dominant abstract expressionist and minimalist tendencies amongst her peers in post-independent Malaysia, Dutt cultivated a practice that included painting, photography, silkscreen, and collage. This selection of prints from the early 1990s were made when the artist returned to London, where she studied printmaking at the UCL. In London, the artist felt that she could indulge in contemplation and break away from her previous methods of artmaking, and these works are demonstrative of her more free and abstract mode of expression in the print medium. They deepen our representation of her printmaking practice in the National Collection, which currently hold two prints from the Homeless in London series.
