Gautam Vaghela
Visual Artist
1936 –
Who is Gautam Vaghela?
Gautam Vaghela is an Indian artist.
His early art education was at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Bombay and he later he went on to train in fresco and mural techniques in Banasthali, Rajasthan. From 1962 to 1994 he was associated with the Weaver's Service Centre at the government of India's Ministry of Textiles. He retired as Director, Coordination and Design Exports for the Centres and Indian Institutes of Handloom Technology. The W.S.C's had artists working closely with weavers for the development of modern textile designs, and it was at the Centre that Vaghela interacted with artists including K.G. Subramanyan, Prabhakar Barwe and Ambadas.
Vaghela has illustrated several books including The Story of Dance: Bharata Natyam by Krishna Sahai and Another India: An Anthology of Indian Contemporary Fiction and Poetry with British painter Howard Hodgkin. In more than four decades as an artist and designer, he has exhibited all over India and overseas, including at the 1966 Biennale de Paris and the 1967 São Paulo Art Biennial.
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- Born
- 1936
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- Gautam vaghela
- Education
- Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art
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on July 23, 2013
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