Thursday, November 21, 2013

Artist Profile-Monoleena Benerjee

Monoleena Benerjee as textile professional has dedicated herself working intensively with the craftspeople, textile and design institutes, Museums, Textile Resource Centers and other textile experts of India & abroad for past two decades and also conducted workshops, presented papers on resist dying with chemical & natural Dyes, specially indigo both at National and International forums. She has conducted a printing, weaving, hand-painting and shibori unit of 60 people named as RANGEEN-III, production unit of Weavers Studio as Chief Designer and Administrative person from 1995 to 2012.

Presently she is working as free lance Textile Artist, Designer & Textile Advisor.

In her two decades of textile carrier she has traveled different parts of the world such as Japan, USA, England, France, Holland, Scotland, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan Australia and allover the Indian sub-continent a to learn Natural dying, wax resist [batik] printing, Shibori, old traditional printing [e.g. Ajrakh printing] and different advanced Azo-free printing techniques and felt making.

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