P. Gnana paints, sculpts and creates conceptual installations, as one of Singapore’s leading artists. Indeed, he has obtained a highly-captivated audience in the lion city and internationally, for the aesthetic and conceptual niche that he has created for himself within the ever-competitive dynamics and economics of urban art-making. This, he continues to achieve, by constantly counter-challenging or taming the forces that urge him to dispel his obsessive fascination towards the cow, a recurring symbol in his art since the last 9 years of his 25-year career as an artist. It is a fact that exemplary paintings by Gnana are also in the collections of the former president of the republic of Singapore, of the Singapore art museum of the national heritage board and of the current ambassador of India to the United Arab Emirates.

Singapore-born Vidhya Gouresan Nair has almost three decades of experience in museum research, art curation, art writing and Tamil-English translation work, within the area of Asian Aesthetics, and Modern and Contemporary Art and Heritage. She holds a Master of Arts in Asian Art Histories, jointly presented by the Open University of the United Kingdom and LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore. In addition, she has lectured on Art History, Art Theory and Professional Practice at the LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore and has tutored Art History at the National University of Singapore, having had guest-lectured at the former Sotheby’s Institute of Art in Singapore. Vidhya has lectured and curated at international art fairs in Singapore, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi, and has curated art/cultural exchange projects between Singapore and India, representing the Singapore Art Society and the Sculpture Society (Singapore). Since 2003, she has been the Curatorial Director and Co-Founder of Gnani Arts in Singapore, a leading art gallery that specialises in modern and contemporary Indian Art. From 2000 to 2006, Vidhya had researched for the South Asia Department of the Asian Civilisations Museum (National Heritage Board) and for the Singapore Philatelic Museum (National Heritage Board). She was indeed the first curator of the multimedia-based SGH Museum (situated at the historic Bowyer Block in the Outram Campus). In 2006, 2007 and 2015, she had contributed a monthly article to the Singapore Art Gallery Guide, under her column entitled ‘Aesthetic Awakening’. Vidhya was also invited to be the Guest Editor of the exclusive Indian Art issue (October 2010) of The Pocket Arts Guide in Singapore. She has edited and written for several catalogue publications (all of which have been accessioned into the collection of the National Library Board, Singapore). Her on-going research revolves around the sculptural tradition of South India, Asian Aesthetics, the dynamics of contemporary image-making and Carnatic Music as a therapeutic modality.