Byron Shire
India is a British–Australian artist based on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers, NSW. She completed a Master of Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney in 2024, where her research focused on the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of transcendence.
Her practice explores painting as a vessel for the unseen and the felt, engaging colour, gesture, and movement to create immersive surfaces that hold space for inner states of being. Influenced by early teachings from her mother to view dreams and the subconscious as gateways into other realms, India continues to integrate spirituality into her work through embodied processes such as meditation, intuitive mark-making, and action painting.
She draws inspiration from artists including Hilma af Klint, Georgiana Houghton, Emma Kunz, Gotthard Graubner, and Wolfgang Laib, whose practices connect abstraction with spiritual enquiry. Through her own paintings and expanded canvas forms, India seeks to create spaces of stillness, reflection, and transcendence that bridge the material and immaterial.
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