Surkhee

Surkhee is a Community Arts initiative to bring art to children at brick kiln sites, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh

Project supported by Artreach India

"We Made Our Own Terracotta Toys"

By now all the kids had learnt about clay and understood tools. We started to make toys now. I started with just asking them to make...

Stories, Patterns and Durga Faces

I went back to the brick kiln in the month of November, spending 3-4 hours with children for 10 days. Some of the kids I worked with...

Portraits, Objects and Memories

From 6 -16th August, I lead my second round of workshop with children and women working and living at brick kilns sites in Mirzapur. On...

Breaking the Ice

Art project with children from brick kilns at Mirzapur. The workshop space becomes a safe zone for kids to express playfully through art