About
Anuradha Bhaumick is a textile artist working with hand embroidery, soft sculpture, and vintage fabrics. She is also the founder of Sui Kapda Baagan, a brand that rescues leftover garment industry cloth and transforms it through embroidery. Instead of letting good textiles go to waste, SKB gives them a second life with a direct purpose: every sale helps fund The Savitribai Phule Memorial School in Darbhanga, Bihar.
Anuradha’s art has found homes across the globe, from the Bahamas to Germany, Nunavut to Japan. Since 2020, she has practiced as an independent artist, developing long-term, research-led embroidery and textile installation projects. These include Comfort Collages, The Time Traveler's Parents (Monn'er Golpo), Joy/Jharna (selected by the Goethe Institut for the 75 Years of Indian Independence programme), Sunder Phool Mandi (a 23-day collaborative installation with 50 participants), and Knots of Liberation (commissioned by Tree and Poetry, translating bell hooks' writing into embroidered form).
Her work has been exhibited at Method Gallery Mumbai, Museo Camera Gurugram, and Kynkyny Art Gallery Bangalore. Anuradha’s art has been profiled by Vogue, Vice, The Times of India, Elle, Hyperallergic, and The New Indian Express, amongst more, and published in Eva Minguet’s The Art of Embroidery (Monsa Publications, 2023), and Anne Kelly's Textile Portraits (Batsford, 2023).
Anuradha lives and works out of Bangalore and Ahmedabad in India. She learned embroidery at the age of five from her mother during a bout of chickenpox. In her free time, Anuradha cooks, reads, and swims. Her ultimate blueprint for life is simple: one rich with the company of rescue dogs, open seas, and wild greens.