Vipul Prajapati

Vipul Prajapati is a very promising young artist doing noteworthy, experimental, creative work in mixed media.

After completing his Diploma in Painting & Drawing from C.N.College of Fine Arts in Ahmedabad, two year ago, Vipul has been experimenting very seriously and with deep understanding with varied mediums like course cloth, wood, paper and canvas. He employs Black Japan on wood to create drawing and compositions. He has sparingly used colures when necessary. With dry brush he has created drawings in his paintings as well as graphic effects. In a few paintings he has fixed real nails, which go very well with the demand of the subject. The surface of the wood creates its own environment, beauty, and texture. He has artistically and creatively used his own photography of Veraval, a port near Somnath and also the main subject of most of his paintings.

During his student life Vipul used to go to Veraval to do sketching of the port and catch its environment as this busy place fascinated him with its renovation and making of small and big ships worker and fishermen. He interested with them in order to know their feelings and also the drudgery of their work and life. He also found interest in the physical appearance of them, particularly their body structure and interesting portraits. In one of his paintings he has shown nails and bolts all over his body, because this person does only work of nails and bolts and as a result he himself has turned into a figure of nails and bolts.

What Vipul has so closely observed and felt at Veraval has been very artistically and aesthetically integrated in the interesting compositions of his paintings. Really these innovative and experimental images of Vipul have created their own unique environment and space of the world of the activities and life at Veraval in various prospective.

Bansilal Dalal (Art Critic)

lalitkala academy award receive - 2004 and 2008

Name : Vipul Prajapati

Birth Date : 1st November 1984..

Studio Add. : ‘COPPERBLACK’
A/315, Swaminarayan Avenue,
Nr.Torrent power AEC office,
132’ Ring road,
Naranpura, Ahmedabad- 380 013.

Phone : 0-98258 75738, 0-9228 501501.

E-mail :

Qualification : Diploma in Drawing & Painting from C.N.Collage of Fine arts Ahmedabad.

Participation :
• Gujarat state Lalit Kala Academy-2003, 04,05,06,07,08
• The Bombay Art Socity – 2005-06, 07.
• “AGNIPATH” New Delhi – 2005.
• Participated in Art Expo India 2008 Delhi by Karma Art Gallery.
• Participated in India Art Summit 2008 Mumbai by Karma Art Gallery.

Award : Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy 2008.
Gujarat State Lalit Kala Academy 2005.

Scholarship : Student scholarship from Gujarat state Lalitkala Academy 2005.

Camp :
• “Variation’08” camp organized by Sanyasi Red in Patna ( bihar )
• Linocut graphic camp organized by Gujarat state Lalitkala Academy 2007.
• ”Artist in Residence” graphic camp organized by National Lalitkala Academy at Ahmedabad 2004-05.
• Photography camp organized by Gujarat State Lalitkala Academy 2003.

Exhibition :
• Online exhibition in Galeria Arteir- Netherlands between 16-05-2009 to 31-05-2009 (journal).
• Group show sponsored by Neo kala-“View Between the trees” at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Banglore 2009.
• Sponsored Group show in Galleria Art Gallery at New Delhi, 2009.
• Selected in 51th National Exhibition of Art organize by Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi 2009.
• Group show of paintings at DAIRA Centre for Arts and Culture, Hyderabad – 2008.
• Group show curate by KARMA art gallery “Ahmedabad Etle Ahmedabad” at Sanskar Kendra Museum, Ahmedabad 2008.
• Selected in 50th National Exhibition of Art organize by Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi 2008.
• Group show curate by Anupa Mehta “India Anew The Ahmedabad Idiom” at Lansdowne Gallery in Mumbai 2008.
• Group show curate by Parav Shah at Beyond Art Gallery in Ahmedabad 2008.
• Group show at KARMA art gallery sponsored by KARMA art gallery 2007.
• Two men show of paintings at Contemporary Art Gallery 2007.
• Group show of paintings at Contemporary Art Gallery 2007.
Collection :
• H.K.Arts College
• Rahul Bhandare – Mumbai.
• Anjelena Chan – Singapore.
• Mr. Harsh Goenka (Art Collector).