Ritu Arya (b.1991) is a multidisciplinary artist from India, currently based in Glasgow. Her work revolves around sorrow, melancholia, longing & similar sentiments with a constant emphasis on the sufferings that untended trauma creates. In the last few years, she has exhibited her work in Cologne, Moscow, Glasgow, and Dundee (UK). She was awarded the RSS Gilbert Bayes Grant in 2023 and a commission from The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2024.

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Working in conjunction with materials, their textures, and moods, my practice entails inspecting, dissecting, and attempting to voice the lingering remains of untended trauma in daily life. My primary mode of communication is sculptural, which often opens into/includes texts, films, images, et cetera, as a whole/install.

Sitting between organic & abstract; my sculptures are usually primitive, archaic, and multifaceted in nature, and are continually evolving in size, shape, and form, with the material-heavy process as a constant. With visible hints of anatomy, they contain cracks, cavities, and openings, along with fragments of my agitation and void, all the while also holding space—space for individual interpretation and analysis.