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ART for. “I realized that art gave me a feeling of great liberation.” She went on to complete her Bachelor in Fine Arts from Lalit Kala Academy in 1992 and had her first solo exhibition, ‘SAARC Girl Child Decade’ at the Goethe Institute in 1990, followed by ‘Women’, at the Srijana Contemporary Art Gallery in 1993. In the same year, ‘Wonderful Landscapes of Nepal’ was exhibited at the J Art Gallery. Ashmina then won a scholarship to do BFA from the University of Tasmania in Australia. With widening exposure to the world, the latent rebel in Ashmina seemed to be boiling over with righteous anger at the unjust gender inequality between the sexes back in her own country. Left above: Asmina’s installation art in Durbar Square, Basantpur, expressing the loss of identity and the bloodshed of recent times. Left below: Charcoal sketch on lokta paper from the ‘Hair Warp’ series. Anger, which gave birth to ‘Women and Sensuality’ in 1998 which was exhibited at the Kathmandu Art Gallery. One of the organizers was architect Sarosh Pradhan, an artist himself, and he remembers, “Ashmina wanted to title the exhibit, ‘Women and Sexuality’ but we advised her that it would be more prudent to use the term, ‘Sensuality’ rather than ‘Sexuality’.” Through this show, Ashmina wanted to ‘express the feminine perspective towards women’s sexuality’. Some of the oils on canvas created quite a stir-a profusion of blood red depicting depths of stark womanhood. Other canvases on display were lithographs which were more complex in nature. Ashmina claims to “have always been influenced by nature…Human Nature, Social Nature, Cultural Nature, Nature’s Nature’ which provokes searching for answers to the questions, ‘Who am I? What am I? Where am I?’”. Ashmina brings up an interesting point when she says that people should be able to understand the difference between skill and creativity in an artist. “An artist may be very accomplished, but it is creativity which uplifts art to a transcendent level.” According to ‘Gender and Globalism’ (Aomori Contemporary Art Centre/ 24 SEP-OCT 2005 SPACES
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