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SHILPA NAYUDU

Place of Residency
Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf

 

Shilpa Nayudu is a visual artist whose practice spans multiple mediums and is deeply rooted in exploring the human body and mind—their rhythms, resilience, and capacity to connect us to one another and to the world around us. She finds meaning in the beauty of the everyday and likes the pace of a slow life, which has led her to incorporate thread work into her practice.

Educated in Contemporary Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and trained as a dentist at Govt. Dental College, Aurangabad—with service in the Indian Army—Shilpa brings a uniquely layered perspective to her work. Her recent artworks carry a quiet but profound sense of admiration and gratitude, blending artistic inquiry with medical understanding to honour the human form and the inner landscapes it holds.

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Artistic Method

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various media

 

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Her choice of medium emerges intuitively, moving between painting, embroidery, and printmaking to craft intimate, layered narratives. Working in series, she often incorporates self-imagery, tracing the contours of her own body to create deeply personal works that transform everyday experiences into contemplations on presence, nourishment, and the quiet beauty of existence.

Project during the Borderland Residency

Year of participation

2025

During her residency, she plans to develop “Inner Cartographies”, a work that makes the body’s unseen inner landscapes perceptible through sound, visual and tactile forms. She will also facilitate a participatory project, “We Are All One”, inviting people into slow stitch circles to embroider bodily motifs onto a shared fabric, celebrating collective making and interconnectedness.

Additionally, she will research ways to expand her textile practice by integrating German and European embroidery and fabric traditions with those from her Indian heritage, creating a cross-cultural dialogue through thread and form. A reflection of cultural hybridity, adaptation, and the body as a living archive of unity in diversity.

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Website
shilpanayudu.in
instagram
@shilpanayudu

SHILPA NAYUDU

Place of Residency
Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf

 

Shilpa Nayudu is a visual artist whose practice spans multiple mediums and is deeply rooted in exploring the human body and mind—their rhythms, resilience, and capacity to connect us to one another and to the world around us. She finds meaning in the beauty of the everyday and likes the pace of a slow life, which has led her to incorporate thread work into her practice.

Educated in Contemporary Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and trained as a dentist at Govt. Dental College, Aurangabad—with service in the Indian Army—Shilpa brings a uniquely layered perspective to her work. Her recent artworks carry a quiet but profound sense of admiration and gratitude, blending artistic inquiry with medical understanding to honour the human form and the inner landscapes it holds.

Borderland Residencies
Borderland Residencies
Borderland Residencies

Artistic Method

Discipline

various media

 

Borderland Residencies
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Her choice of medium emerges intuitively, moving between painting, embroidery, and printmaking to craft intimate, layered narratives. Working in series, she often incorporates self-imagery, tracing the contours of her own body to create deeply personal works that transform everyday experiences into contemplations on presence, nourishment, and the quiet beauty of existence.

Project during the Borderland Residency

Year of participation

2025

During her residency, she plans to develop “Inner Cartographies”, a work that makes the body’s unseen inner landscapes perceptible through sound, visual and tactile forms. She will also facilitate a participatory project, “We Are All One”, inviting people into slow stitch circles to embroider bodily motifs onto a shared fabric, celebrating collective making and interconnectedness.

Additionally, she will research ways to expand her textile practice by integrating German and European embroidery and fabric traditions with those from her Indian heritage, creating a cross-cultural dialogue through thread and form. A reflection of cultural hybridity, adaptation, and the body as a living archive of unity in diversity.

Website
shilpanayudu.in
instagram
@shilpanayudu

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