Sunaina Bhalla: Fabric printing workshop
Free workshop on the art of block printing on fabrics
Join a FREE workshop to learn the art of block printing on fabrics. Pre-registration required via this form. Supplies will be provided.
Artist Sunaina Bhalla will give a short talk on the history of block printing on fabrics and explain how the traditional handmade blocks she has brought for the workshop are made and used. Participants work out patterns and color schemes with her guidance and will use her assortment of blocks to print on paper and fabric. Blocks may be available for purchase by participants afterwards.
Artist Bio: Sunaina Bhalla is a contemporary artist of Indian origin based in Singapore. Her interdisciplinary practice spans installation, embroidery, printmaking, and textile-based research, and is rooted in long-term investigations into the body as a site of memory, repetition, and material inscription. She trained as a textile designer specialising in print before undertaking five years of study in traditional Nihonga painting in Tokyo under Suiko Ohta-sensei of the Kyoshin-Do school. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, where her research explored gesture and the ritual of pain.
Her recent work expands into The Saree Project, a long-term research initiative examining the saree through museum collections, archives, and contemporary practice. The project considers how histories of gender, labour, colonialism, and cultural transmission are embedded within textile objects and their display across institutions and geographies.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections.Artist Sunaina Bhalla will give a short talk on the history of block printing on fabrics and explain how the traditional handmade blocks she has brought for the workshop are made and used. Participants work out patterns and color schemes with her guidance and will use her assortment of blocks to print on paper and fabric. Blocks may be available for purchase by participants afterwards.