Dhruva Mistry

File:The River - Victoria Square, the City Council - Birmingham - 2005-10-13.jpg

The River, center piece of a set of permanent installation of sculptures in Victoria Square, Birmingham

Dhruva Mistry CBE RA is one of the better known Indian artists to emerge in the 1980s. He was born in 1957, Kanjari, central Gujarat in India and studied Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University of Baroda in 1974-1981 and also obtained his Master’s Degree in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London on a British Council Scholarship in 1981-1983. Mistry was Artist in Residence in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain at Kettle’s Yard Gallery in Cambridge with a Fellowship at the Churchill College, University of Cambridge in 1984-85. He was Artist in Residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in 1988. He represented Britain at the Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Japan in 1990 and was Elected Member at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1991. Birmingham City Council commissioned him principal artist for the Victoria Square Sculptures in 1992-1993. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, London in 1993. The Asian Art Museum in Fukuoka, Japan selected him as an Indian artist for the Asian Artist Today- Fukuoka Annual VII Exhibition in 1994. In 1997, he returned to resume his work in Vadodara. Mistry was awarded Honorary CBE for his contribution to the Arts in 2001. He was Professor, Head of Sculpture & Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1999-2002. Awarded Honorary Doctor of the University by the Birmingham City University in 2007. At present he resides and works in Vadodara with his artist wife Trupti Patel and son Sumeru.

Works

• Sitting Bull, Liverpool Garden Festival, 1984. Otterspool Promenade, 2006.
• Reguarding Guardians, Hayward Annual, 1985
• Her Head, Gilman Place, City of Stoke on Trent, 1985, bronze, commissioned for the National Garden Festival 1986
• Dialectical Image, from the series of 29 Direct Bronzes, 1990
• The River, Youth, Victoria Square Guardians and The Object, Variations I and II, 1991-94 a set of sculptures in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England, 1993

Work

Mistry’s art as a form and means of expression presents individual cultural curiosity and conceptual richness of visual musings. Art as a growing symbol of life and culture has led him to explore forms in a variety of media. His oeuvre of interest contributes to his creative success. His work comprise of drawing, painting, etching, dry point, digital works, photography, sculpture and words in English; using India’s second language. Mistry is among few well known Indian-international artists of his generation. His ideas and forms deal with the real and pictorial space using available materials. He reveals a dialectical approach of an artist enjoying dialogue of a maker while pursuing omnipresent reality of his sculptural object. Mistry’s works in the round possess formal substance of form, visual and perceptual beauty of sculptural reality. His vision of the world offer perambulatory experience of his belief transformed into a sculptural reality of experience. Like ever evolving meaning of words in spoken languages, his ponderings reflect contemporaneity and visual variety of cultural ideas. Mistry finds inspiration from civilizations and cultures be it Indian, Chinese, Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, European Mayan, Oceanic, African, tribal, folk, old, new and modern in their arts, crafts, and life. Unknown and known makers and masters of his interest from various civilizations nurture his unassuming curiosity. Dichotomy of instinct and reason, the animal and human present a dilemma of ancient faith affecting democratic and economic growth of Asian culture and meaning of modernity. Mistry’s figurative abstractions of forms are evident in his range of drawings, paintings, prints, work in clay, plaster, fiberglass, sand and cement, chalk, marble, sandstone, bronze, stainless steel and wood. He is represented in public collections U.K., Japan and India and worked on significant public sculpture projects.

Selected Solo

2008 Dhruva Mistry, Prisms 366°: Sounds & Echoes, 1997-2007, Meru, Vadodara -Catalogue of Text-Blocks by the Artist, Ink Jet Prints, 24 pages, published by the Artist

Dhruva Mistry, Artist in Focus, Contemporary Works: India 2008, Harmony Show, Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai, p7- 43 -Catalogue of selected works 1998-2007 include etchings, Paintings on canvas, digital prints on paper, Canvas and flex, bronzes Stainless Steel reliefs and round work; A persistent Heroism, introduced by Gayatri Sinha, Published by Harmony Art Foundation, Mumbai with a Folio of six works.

2007 Dhruva Mistry, Steel, Stainless Still, New Work 2004-2006, Coimbatore Palace, Bodhi Art, New Delhi ISBN 978-81-904378-4-7 -Catalogue of Relief and Round laser cut, welded, assembled or painted Stainless Steel works, 58 pages, Published by Bodhi Art, New Delhi

Dhruva Mistry, Ink Jet, canvas & Sculpture, Art Pilgrim, New Delhi -Catalogue of Selected works from 2002-2007, 80 pages, Introduction by Sharmila Sagara with Transcript of a Chance meeting with Picasso by the Artist, Published by Art Pilgrim

2005 Dhruva Mistry, Table Pieces 2003-2004, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai and tour

Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (Three Solo Shows, Manjit Bawa, K. G. Subramanyan and Dhruva Mistry- Artists against communal violence organized by the Sakshi Gallery),

Rabindra Bhavan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi -Catalogue of 25 unique direct wax bronzes with selected pieces from Dialectal Images and the set of 7 Delight of the Reason bronzes of 1990-1992, Looking Around 1-4, 1996. There were Large Fiberglass works of 2003-04 and The Object and True (After Uno II, 2003). With text by the Artist ‘Duologue with a young sculptor with illustrated footnotes’ 68 pages, Published by Sakshi Gallery

2001 Dhruva Mistry, Work 1997-2001, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

-Catalogue of ALoC: the Object of 1997-01, A series of 13 small, 3 medium and 2 large constructed of stainless steel bars and sheet metal, Introduction by Pramod Ray, 24pages, Published by Sakshi Gallery

2000 Dhruva Mistry, Thoughts about Things: Leaves from Ire, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland

1999 Dhruva Mistry, Prints 1988-1998, Gallery Espace, New Delhi -Catalogue of Etchings and Leaves from Ire, Xerographic prints, Introduction by Pramod Ray, 16 pages, Published by Gallery Espace, New Delhi

1998 Dhruva Mistry, Thoughts about Things: Leaves from Ire, Nazar Gallery, Vadodara

1996 Dhruva Mistry, Recent Sculpture, Bronzes 1992-95, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Sept 29- Nov l7 -Brochure with text by Clare Lilley, Published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park

1995 Dhruva Mistry, Work1990-1995, Royal Academy, Friends Room in Association with Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London -Catalogue of Bad infinite, Delight of the Reason, Light, passion and Darkness, Plaster Reliefs, Introduced by David Cohen, 1993-95, 34 pages and Published by Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art

Dhruva Mistry, Unmasked, 1996, Text by Lynne Green, Exhibition Brochure, Meghraj Gallery, London 1985-1986 -Brochure of 36 Wooden relief assemblages of 1996, Published by Meghraj Gallery, London

1994 Dhruva Mistry, Asian Artist Today: Fukuoka Annual VII, Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

-Catalogue Introduction of Selected work 1982- 1991 by Ushiroshoji Masahiro and Essay by Lynne Green, 48 pages and Published by the Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka

1990 Dhruva Mistry, Bronzes 1985-1990, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London -Catalogue Introduction by Andrew Wilson, 68 pages, published by Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London

1988-89 Dhruva Mistry, Cross-Sections, Sculpture and Drawings 1982-88, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and tour to

Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

-Catalogue Introduction by Tessa Jackson and essay by Paul Moorehouse, 24 pages, published by Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

1987 Dhruva Mistry, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London -Exhibition of Maya Medallions painted and part gilt Plaster Reliefs, 1986-87

Dhruva Mistry, Artsite No 6, Artsite Gallery, Bath -Brochure introduced by Rupert Martin, published by Artsite Gallery, Bath

1985 Dhruva Mistry, Sculpture and Drawings, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge and tour to

Cartwright Hall, Bradford,

Arnolfini Gallery,

Bristol, Mostyn Art Gallery and

Llandudno and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

-Catalogue of selected works 1982-1985, 32 pages, Introduced by William Feaver and essay by Sheena Wagstaff, published by Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge

1983 Dhruva Mistry, Sculpture 1979-81, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmadabad

1981 Dhruva Mistry, Work 1978-1981, Art Heritage, New Delhi and tour to

Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai -Text on the Artist by Mala Marwah, Annual Exhibitions’ Catalogue published by Art Heritage, New Delhi

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London London Art Fair, London

2009 20th Century Sculpture 2009, Grosvenor Gallery, London

2008 Indian Art, at the Swarovski ‘Crystal World’ Sculpture Park, Wattens, Austria Faces of Indian Art, Book Release, ITC Grand central, Mumbai & Art Books, Art Dubai, Dubai Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2007 Faces of Indian Art, Art Alive Gallery at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi 20th Century Sculpture 2007, Grosvenor Gallery, London

2006 The Art Mill at Berkley Square Gallery, London Nirmiti, a constructed object, Akar Prakar, Kolkata

2005 Modern Indian Paintings, Gosvenor Gallery(Fine Arts)Ltd, London Osian’s Revisulising India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

2004 Indian Artists for France, Embassy of France, New Delhi Subtlety-Minimally, Curated by Marta Jakimovitz, Sakshi Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

2003 Affordable Art Show 2003, The Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmadabad

2002 Thinking Big: 21st Century British Sculpture, Peggey Guggenheim Collection, Venice Metamorphing, Curated by Marina Warner and Sarah Bakewell, Science Museum, London

2001 10th Triennale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi RCA, Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2000 Embarkations, The Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Bronze, an Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Holland Park, London

1999 Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood Drawing and Models, Hertogenbosch, Noorbrabants Museum, Holland

1997 New Generation of Asian Art, Yonago City Museum of Art, and tour to Prefectural Museum of Art, Miyakonojo City Museum of Art, Japan Major Trends in Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

1996 Mask’96, Royal Festival Hall, London Academical Heads, Royal Academy London

1995 ART’95 the London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Center, London Indian Winter, Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London

1994 Figure and Fantasy, The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury Gwyl Geff Harlech Art Biennale, Gwynedd

1993 Recent British Sculpture, Arts Council Collection, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, -Derby and Tour in the UK Contemporary Art Society Market, Smiths Galleries, London

1992 Drawing from the Imagination, Morley Gallery, London Millfield British 20th Century Sculpture Exhibition, Somerset

1991 Coming to Hand, Kibble Palace, Glasgow Recent Acquisitions: Laing Art Gallery, Mayor Gallery, London

1990 Menagerie, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Japan

1988 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London Images of Paradise, Terrace Gallery, Harwood House, Yorkshire

1987 Works for Shelves: A System of Support, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge The Self Portrait, A Contemporary View, Artsite Gallery, Bath

1986 Sculpture at Stoke, National Garden Festival, Stoke on Trent 14th Biennale lnternazionale del Bronzetto e Piccola Scultura, Padua

1985 A Journey Through Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London Proud and Prejudiced, Twinning Gallery, New York

1984 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Festival Sculpture, International Garden Festival, Liverpool

1983 Portland Clifftop Sculpture Park, Portland Peter Moore’s Project 7, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and tour to Dublin

1982 Fifth Triennale India, New Delhi Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1979 Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Madras National Exhibition of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

Artist’s Prints

2002-2007 Expulsion of Pain, Auto CAD drawings, Ink Jet

1997-2007 Prisms 366°: Sounds & Echoes, Ink Jet

2001-2007 Drawing Sculpture, Auto CAD drawings, Ink Jet

1998-2006 Meru Baba, Etchings, Aquatints and Dry Points

2004-2006 Family Folio, Photo works, Ink Jet

2001-2006 Collage Days, Small Drawings collages and Inkjet

1998 Thoughts about Things: Leaves from Ire, Photocopied Photo works

1988 From the North, Etchings and Dry Points

Public Collections

The Arts Council Britain, London. Alliance Francaise, Embassy of France, New Delhi. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham. The British Council, London. The British Museum, London. Contemporary Art Society, London. Churchill College, Cambridge. Cartwright Hall, Bradford. City Art Gallery, Manchester. Chelmsford and Essex Museum, Chelmsford. City of Stoke-on-Trent. Department of Fine Arts, Punjab University, Chandigarh. Delhi University, New Delhi. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. Delhi Development Authority, New Delhi. Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka. Glynn Vivien Art Gallery, Swansea. Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh. Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. The Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan. Jigyo-Chuo-Koen Park, Fukuoka. Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. Leicestershire Education Authority, Leicestershire. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes. Merseyside Development Corporation, Liverpool. National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Naka-dori, Marunochi, Tokyo. The New British Library, London. Oriana, P&O Cruises, UK. Osian’s Archive, New Delhi. Peter Moore’s Foundation, Liverpool. Petronet LNG Limited, Dahej. Roopankar Museum of Fine Art, Bhopal. Royal College of Art, London. Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton. Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood. Tate Gallery, London. Tamano City Council, Uno, Japan. Ulster Museum, Belfast. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. West Zone Culture Centre, Udaipur. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton.

Audio Visual Programme/ Radio

2008 Ham Safar, Interview, 97.7 FM, Melbourne, Spring-Summer, Australia 2007 IBN Metro TV, New Delhi 2001 Limelight, Star News, New Delhi 1999 Aaj Tak, Doordarshan, Metro TV, New Delhi and Meridian Live, BBC Arts, World Service, 23 December, London 1993 Sister Wendy’s Odyssey, A Journey of Artistic Discovery, Sister Wendy Beckett, BBC 2 Television, London and Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4 and Putting art in its place, in association with the Arts Council and Channel 4 Television, UK Take 15, Central Television, Birmingham, UK 1990 The Late show, Pick of the Month, BBC 2 Television and Third Ear, an interview with Dr Andrew Causey, BBC Radio 3 1988 Bandung File, Channel 4 Television, UK and Clyde Built, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK 1986 Folio, Anglia Television, UK 1984 Asian magazine, BBC 2 Television and Two Videos about Six Artists, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Public Commissions

1982 Mitchell Beazley Publishers, London 1983 Peter Moores Foundation, Liverpool 1984 Merseyside Development Corporation, Liverpool 1985 Churchill College, Cambridge 1987 Nitchiman Corporation, Japan 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow and British Art Medal Society, London 1989 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 1990 Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow 1992 Victoria Square, the City Council, Birmingham 1993 International Classical Music Awards, London and Quaglino’s, London 2002 Tamano City Project, Uno, Japan 2004 LNG Petronet Limited, Dahej 2005 Delhi Development Authority, New Delhi for Delhi University

Reference

2010 Madhu Jain, Sensual Abstractions, the timeless sculptures of dhruva mistry, p64-65, and Collecting Sculpture by the Artist, Varta magazine, Akar Prakar, Kolkota, vol. 2, no.1, p66-69, ISSN0974 7060 Cambridge Sculpture Trails 3, West Cambridge, leaflet published by cambridge sculpture trails co uk

2009 Expert View by the Artist, Times City, The Times of India, Jan 28, Ahmadabad, p2

2008 Art Attack, Feature, GG2 Life, Asian life and style magazine, june/july,London, p18 Simon Martin, Dhruva Mistry: Making Connections, London Magazine, Feature, Oct/Nov, Anglo- Indian Issue, London, P19-24 Dr. Shivaji Pannikar, Modern Indian Sculpture, Art and Visual Culture In India 1857-2007, Edited by Gayatri Sinha, Modern Indian Sculpture, Mumbai, p183 Dr. Alka Pande, Indian art, The new international sensation, A Collector’s Handbook, Manjul Publishing House, Bhopal, p.82 Nina Martyris, Adding clay, substracting stone in a diverse display, The Times of India, March 31, Mumbai, p10 Alain Monvoisin, Dictionaire International de la Sculpture Modern & Contemporaine, Editions Du Regard, Paris, p369-370

2007 S Kalidas, Steeled Delicacy, your week, Arts & entertainment, India Today, 12 February, New Delhi, p83 Debadutta Gupta, Vishvayane Saffaler Hathchani, India Today, Bengali Edition, 20 April, Kolkata, p78 A Marriage of Ancient and Pop, Uma Prakash, World Sculpture News, Volume 13, number 1, Winter, Hong Kong, p32-37 Faces of Indian Art, Edited by Ina Puri, Art Alive Gallery, p350-355, 364, New Delhi, ISBN 978-81-901844-5-8 Ripu Daman Singh, Heavy metal magic, Hindustan Times, Reviews on Saturday, Feb 3, New Delhi, p15 Contemporary Sculpture in the Historic, Bad Homburg Kurpark and Castle Gardens Edition Scheffel, Text by Roland Koch, Blickachsen 6, Germany by Galerie Scheffel, p112-115

2006 Bleep, The Eric and Jean Cass Collection, Text by Ann Elliott, Private Publication, Eric and Jean Cass, Sussex, P45 Contemporary Indian Sculpture, Ajibi News, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum News, Vol23, January, Fukuoka, p2 Ella Dutta, Body of Work, Review, Art India, volume XI, issue III, Mumbai, p96, ISSN 0972-2947 Maitreyee Handique, The shape of Things to Come, The Sunday Express, Arts etc, 13 Aug, New Delhi Birmingham Univ honorary doctorate for city sculptor, Indian Express, Newsline, Sept 6, Vadodara

2005

• Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country, George T. Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse, 2005, ISBN 0-85323-989-4Saam Chaturvedi, Turn table, Art Reviews, TimeOut Mumbai, Jan 14-27, Vol 1, Mumbai, p40

Amrita Zaveri, A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists, India Book House, Mumbai, p130,131,176, ISBN 81-7508-423-5 Marta Jacimowicz, Intimacies: Monumental and Miniature, Review, Art India, volume XI, issue III, Mumbai, p96-97, ISSN 0972-2947 Amazing Muse by the Artist, Insight, British Museum Magazine, Number 56, Autumn/Winter, London, p5-7 Carmen Garcia-Ormaechea, A Look at the History of Contemporary Indian Art, Perspectives,- arco, contemporary art, Autumn 2005, Number 37, Madrid, p8

2004 Modern British Art at Pallant House Gallery, Edited by Esme West, Scala Publishers, Chichester, p1, ISBN 1-85759-366-9 Dr. Alka Pande, The Age of Shifting Demographies, East West Encounter, New Delhi

2003 Liz Else, Going with the flow, New Scientist, 4 Jan, London Straight Answers by the Artist, the Vadodara Times of India,19 Aug, Vadodara

2002 Ella Dutta, Signals, Symbols of New Art Trends, Lalit Kala Contemporary, Lalit Kala Akademi, January, Issue 45, New Delhi, p25 Thinking big, concepts for twenty-first century british sculpture, Published by Sculpture at Goodwood, p49-50 Phillip Attwood, British Art Medals 1982-2002, Published by the British Art Medal Trust, London, p13 & 16, ISBN 0 9536988 3 1 Metamorphing, transformation in science, art and mythology, introduction by Marina Warner and Sarah Bakewell, Science Museum, 4th Oct 2002-16th Feb 2003, London Churchill College Newsletter, Churchill College, Cambridge, summer (cover)

2001 Sajid Sheikh, The mystery behind Mistry, The Times of India, Backbeat, Jan 6, Ahmadabad Jasmine Shah Varma, Man of Steel, Mid-Day, The List, Feb 26, Mumbai, p1 Anahite Contractor, The Times of India, Visio, Castles of air, March 6, Mumbai Uday Mahurkar, From Another World, India Today International, UK Special Section, London, Jan 15, p24d & 24c 10th Triennale-India, Preface by Dr Saryu Doshi, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, p63,159 Anshul Avijit, Artless Artistry, India Today, March 5, New Delhi Abhay Sardesai, Blurring the Line of Control, Art India, Review, Vol 6, issue 2, Mumbai, p52 Johny ML, Sculpture is a process of revelation, interview with the artist, Tehelka com/arts Vidya Shivadas, For long-term living give me Baroda any day, The Indian Express, April 19, New Delhi, p3

2000 Bronze, Contemporary British Sculpture Holland Park, a Millennium Shows, compiled by Ann Elliott and essay by Nobert Lynton and Louise Vaughan, Published by Royal Borough of Kensington And Chelsea Libraries and Art Service Central Library, London, p18,100-104 Twentieth-Century Indian sculpture, the last two decades, edited by Shivaji K Panikkar, Marg Publications, vol52, no1, Mumbai, p10,12,17,28,29,35,41,57,144, ISBN 81-85026-49-1 Queen Elizabeth honours sculptor Dhruva Mistry, The Indian Express, Dec 31, Mumbai, P9

1999 The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum’s Collection, introduced by Ushiroshoji Masahiro, Fukuoka, Japan, Published by Bijutsu-Shuppen-Sha, ltd, Asian Art ISBN 4 568-201608 C 3070, inside cover & p63 Madhu Jain, Cutting Edge, The Arts, India Today, March 29, New Delhi, p80-81 Vinod Bhardwaj, Dakshata aur darshanik jignasa, Jansatta, March 13, New Delhi Akshaya Mukul, Back, but beyond other worldly work, The Hindustan Times, March 14, New Delhi Gayatri Sinha, Capturing the March of Civilization, The Hindu, March 19, New Delhi Suneet Chopra, Dhruva Mistry: Sculptures that exude sheer lyricism, Financial Express, March 28, New Delhi Arun Bhowmick, Impressive array of works, The Statesman, March 28, New Delhi

1998 Dhruva Mistry, Prints 1988-1998, introduction, Gallery Espace, New Delhi Balraj Khanna and Aziz Kurtha, Art of Modern India, Thames and Hudson, London, p1, 25, 38, 45, 125, 126, 127, 135, ISBN 0- 50023755-7 Glasgow Print Studio, The British Council, Indian Tour Catalogue, Introduced by John Mackechnie British Contemporary Sculpture 97-98, text by Ann Eliott, Published by Sculpture at Goodwood, West Sussex, p38, ISBN 0 9525233 3 7 Esther David, prodigal son returns, Table for Two, the Times of India, Dec 5, Ahmadabad Glasgow Print Studio, The British Council, Indian Tour Catalogue, Introduction by John Mackechnie

• Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield, George T. Noszlopy, edited Jeremy Beach, 1998, ISBN 0-85323-692-5

1997 Dhruva Mistry, The Medal, No 31, Autumn, London, pl 40 (cover) New Generation of Asian Art, Shows Catalogue, Text by Masahiro Ushiroshoji, Published by The Japan Associaton of Art Museums, Japan Richard H. Davis, Lives of Indian Images, Princeton University Press, pl 83 Major Trends in Indian Art, Curated by Rm Palaniappan, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, pl 62 Rediscovering the Roots, Contemporary Indian Art, Curated by Laxma Goud, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, p25 The Sunil Sethi Column, The Express Magazine, March 30, New Delhi

1996 The RA Magazine, The Royal Academy, No 50, Spring, London (Golden Jubilee Issue, Cover) Dhruva Mistry, Pick of the Week, The Independent, Oct 1, London David Cohen, Hegel would have approved, The Independent, Section two, Oct 4, London William Feaver, Shows of the week, October 18, The Observer Life Magazine, Oct 20, London Bugged by his own bug, UK Special, India Today, Oct 31, London

1995 Jonathan Berg, Positively Birmingham, Birmingham Picture Library, Birmingham, pl,2,3,7 & 11, ISBN 0 9523179 0 7 (cover) Nicholas Schoon, Fountain showered with praise, The Independent, Nov 10, London

1994 The Indian Diary, Introduction by the Artist, Redstone Press, London David Cohen, Out of India, Hindu Spirituality in Recent British Sculpture, Sculpture Magazine, Jan/Feb, New York (cover) p26-27 Dhruva Mistry, Espianade, No 78, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan Race, Sex and Gender in Contemporary Art, Edward Lucie Smith, Art Books International, London, p82-83 John Morrish, A Week in the Arts, Dhruva Mistry, The Daily Telegraph, June 4, London N P Krishna Kumar, Universal, yet very Indian, Métier, Indian Express, July 6, Bombay

1993 Andrew Lambirth, In Conversation with the Artist, The Artist’s and Illustrator’s Magazine, Issue 77, February, London, pl 7-19 Lynne Green, Pleasing the Heart, Contemporary Art, Summer, Bath, p36-40 James Hamilton, Public Art: a New Age, The Art quarterly, The National Art Collection Fund, No 15, Autumn, London, p45 Prospectus, Royal College of Art, 1993-94, London Sculpture in the Dock, World Architecture, Jul/Aug, London Terry Grimley, A Square of Sculptures, Spaces and Sphinxes, The Birmingham Post, May 5, Birmingham Richard Cork, All Square, Past and Present, The Times, May 10, London Di Praises a ‘Fantastic’ Square, The Birmingham Post, May 7, Birmingham Fluzzie in Jacuzzi’ is Splash hit with Diana, Daily Mail, Mail 5, Birmingham Gayatri Sinha, The river goddess of Birmingham, The Times of India, May 23, New Delhi Sister Wendy’s Odyssey, A Journey of Artistic Discovery, Sister Wendy Beckett, BBC Books, London, p20

1992 BBC Music Magazine, The International Classical Music Awards, Oct, London Andrew Lambirth, The Union of Opposites, RA Magazine, No 36, Oct, London Carved enigma will dominate Britain’s biggest fountain, The Times, Oct 24, London Patrick O’Flynn, Praise as The River flows in to the City, Birmingham Post, Oct 29, Birmingham Jo Barker, Bathing Beauty! Birmingham Voice, Oct 25, Birmingham Fountain is ‘rubbish’, Evening Mail, Oct 28, Birmingham William Feaver, Where Bigger means Better, The Observer, Oct 29, London

1991 Mistry Reaches New Heights, Bazaar Magazine, Issue 15, London Art News, Spring, Wales (cover) David Brier, Guardians of Art, Artists News Letter 9, March British Contemporary Art 1910-1990, Herbert Press Ltd, London, pl 42 ISBN 1-871569-39-T Anthony O’Hear, Figurative Sculpture After Henry Moore, Modern Painters, Vol 4, No 2, Summer, London, p26 New Sculpture Overlooking Park Place, AMGUEDDFA, Summer, Wales, p11 Sumati Gangopadhyay, Monumental and Minimal, Sunday Review, Times of India, March 17, Bombay James Delingpole, Indian is youngest RA since Turner, The Daily Telegraph, June 3, London

1990 Andrew Wilson, Modem Painters, Exhibitions, Vol 3, No 3, Autumn, London, p86- p88 David Cohen, Mistry, Gouk and Barclay, Galleries, Vol VIII, No 5, Oct, London Maggie Jamieson, Dhruva Mistry, Reviews, City Limits, Nov 18, London Sarah Kent, Dhruva Mistry, Time Out, Nov 7-14, London David Lillington, Dhruva Mistry, Arts Review, Vol XLII, No 22, Nov, London Art in the Eighties, Edward Lucie Smith, Phaidon Press Ltd, Oxford Eccentric Gardens, Jane Owen, Pavilion Books Ltd, London Francis Spalding, Dictionary of British Art, Vol VI, 20th Century Painters and Sculptors, Antique Collectors Club, London, p3 Documentation, Special Issue, Lalit Kala Contemporary-36, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, p85 Sarah Jane Checkland, A Miniature Figure of Mistry, The Times, Oct 20, London

1989 Patronage and Practice-Sculpture on Merseyside, Edited by Penelope Curtis, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside Sarah Howell and Susan Skeen, House Trained, World of Interiors, July/Aug, London Keith Bruce, Festival Star on Way to New Engagement, Glasgow Herald, Jan 17, Glasgow William Packer, Financial Times, Dec 30, London

1988 Art for Architecture, Edited by Denna Patherbridge, HMSO London, Plate 3 Brooks Adams, Dhruva Mistry at Nigel Greenwood, Art in America, No 1, Jan, New York Rupert Martin, Dhruva Mistry at Nigel Greenwood, Flash Art International, No.138, Jan/Feb, New York Jane Lee, Glasgow Garden Festival, Art Monthly, No 119, Sept, London Isabel Vasseur, Art in its Place, Landscape Design, June, London, p37 Peter Welton, Gujarati Indian Artists, Arts Review, June 17, London Clare Henry, Sculpture at the Glasgow Garden Festival, Arts Review, June 17, London, p435 Kirsty Milne, Artful Glasgow, new Society, April 29, London (cover) Rose Paterson, Faith in Modern Artists, The Daily Telegraph, May 4, London Shrabani Basu, Baroda Sculptor creates a blend of the Old and New, India Abroad, May 27, New York David Spark, Mistry men make their mark, Kuwait Times, Aug 18, Kuwait Clare Henry, The Mystery and Misinterpretation of Mistry, Glasgow Herald, Oct 14, Glasgow Douglas Hall, Sculptures of Surprises, The Scotsman, Oct 16, Glasgow

1987 Clive Turnbull, East Meets West, The Sculptures of Dhruva Mistry, The Green Book, Vol 2, No 6, Bath Mary Rose Beaumont, Dhruva Mistry: Reliefs, Art News, Oct, London Anandi Ramamurthy, Spilling Over Margins, Artrage, No 18, Autumn, London The Self Portrait, A Modern View, Edward Lucie Smith and Sean Kelly, Sarema Press Ltd, London Rupert Martin, Dhruva Mistry, Brochure, Artsite No 6, Artsite Gallery, Poster and Calendar, Bath Marina Vaisey, Critic’s Choice, The Sunday Times, Oct 4, London Sarah Kent, Time Out, October 16, No 895, London Mark Currah, City Limit, Oct 16, 15-2213l5, London Andrew Graham Dixon, Lost in the Myths, The Independent, Oct 17, London William Packer, Sacred Beasts and Bullish Things, Financial Times, Oct 20, London Christopher Wilson, Snow Man’s Land, Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Dec 20, London (cover) Sunday East, Channel 4 Television, London

1986 Frances Morris, Dhruva Mistry Sculpture and Drawings, Arnolfini Review, Jan 17-Feb 22, Bristol Beatrice Phillpotts, Works in Clay, Arts Review, Jan 17, London Michael Phillipson, Dhruva Mistry at Arnolfini, Artscribe International, No 57, London The Male Nude,- A Modern View, Francoise de Loville and Edward Lucie Smith, Phaidon, Oxford Artrage, International Arts Magazine, Autumn, No 9/10, London, p32 Phoenix News, Royal College of Art News Letter, No 5, London William Packer, Beauty and the Beasts, Financial Times, Feb 4, London Bonny Mukharjee, Figures of Mistry, Sunday Mail, Feb 9-16, New Delhi Marina Vaisey Painting Over the Ideal Homes Cracks, The Sunday Times, March 9, London

1985 Art Monthly, No 86, May, London (cover) Charles Harrison & Judy Annear, The Hayward Annual, Art Monthly No 87, June, London Michael Spens, Much more than just so, Studio International, Vol 198, No 1009, London Mary Rose Beaumont, The Hayward Annual, Arts Review, June, London Dave Lee, Dhruva Mistry, Arts Review, October II, London Nena Dimitrijevic, Hayward Annual, Flash Art International, No 123 A Mistry at Kettle’s Yard, Eastward, Eastern Arts, Vol 14, No 10, East Anglia Atlas, No 1, Wolley Dale Press, London

1984 Dan Jackson, Sculptor from India carves out a Niche, Cambridge Evening News, Nov 30 Margaret Garlake, Dhruva Mistry, Adrian Wisniewski, Jean Masore, Gwen John, Art Monthly, No 91, London Caroline Collier, Dhruva Mistry in Cambridge, Studio International, No 1011, London Nigel Greenwood, A Journey through Contemporary Art with Nigel Greenwood, The Hayward Annual, The Arts Council of Britain

1983 Caroline Collier, In Search of Figurative Image, Sculpture at the Royal College of Art Degree Show, Studio International, Vol 196, No 1001, London New English Sculpture axe Sud Art Actuel, Paris, ISSNO292-921 X Esther David, Silence in the Galleries, The Times of India, Feb 7, Ahmadabad Sarah Kent, Time Out, June 17-23, No 699, London William Feaver, And the Best of British art, Observer Magazine, Nov 13, London

1982 Aman Nath, Bazaar Trends, India Today Jan 15, New Delhi Pearl Padmsee, A Nude show in 3-D, Mid Day, Feb 27, Bombay M Sholapurkar, Bold Forays into Fiberglass, The Daily, Feb 27, Bombay S I Clerk, Superrealistic Sculptures, Art Review Bulletin, Feb 26, Bombay Jehanara and Muriel Wasi, Rejects Controversy, Patriot Magazine, April, New Delhi Catalogue, Contemporary Indian art at the Royal Academy, London (Festival of India) Studio International Vol 195, No 996, London

1981 Mala Marwah, Dhruva Mistry, Exhibition Catalogue, Annual edition, Art Heritage, New Delhi Attractive Sculpture, The Statesman, Jan 6, New Delhi

1980 Ratan Parimoo, New Sculpture from Baroda, Lalit Kala Contemporary 28, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi

1979 Silver Jubilee Shows of Sculpture, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi Exhibition catalogue (Cover)

Controversy

In 1999, Mistry was appointed Professor of Sculpture before being made regular Head of the Department and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts by the M.S. University of Baroda. By mid 2002, feeling besieged by the MSU administration to review probation of a Lecturer in Sculpture, he tendered a three months termination notice in mid August 2002, and clarified reasons in the interest of the future of Higher Education in professional streams. The MSU admin had found no fault against him before or after his appointment as the Head and Dean. As there was no response from the authorities prior to his three months notice by mid October 2002, he quit his job and left the MSU to return to self employment. Despite University Grants Commission (UGC) stipulated Minimum Standards of Maintenance of Higher Education and requirements of minimum qualification of the University teachers (of 1993) in the Fine Arts as ratified by the by the MSU in 1998, the authorities ignored the interest of the Sculpture Department where Mistry worked with a temporary lecturer out of 7 sanctioned posts of teachers. Copy of his conditional notice sent to the Honorable Governor of Gujarat as the Chancellor of the State’s Grant in Aid Universities led to a query for the MSU. In mid December 2002 in the year of the worst communal carnage and subsequent riots in Gujarat, an unprecedented drama unfolded in the Fine Arts when Mistry was no longer working at the MSU. For not having heard from the MSU about his resignation, in summer 2003, he circulated another reminder. The second query from the Governor prodded the MSU to concede that Mistry be relieved from October 2002. In early 2010, the VC sacked 5 temporary Lecturers including the above mentioned appointee in the Sculpture Department.

Reference: 19 July – 21 December 2002

Mistry adamant about quitting, Vadodara Newsline, Indian Express, 19 July, Vadodara

Mistry issue: Bhandari seeks details, Newsline, Indian Express, Oct 22, Vadodara, p1 Syndicate to discuss resignation of Fine arts Dean, Governor seeks details: Uni authorities cover culprits against the Deanship, Gujarat Samachar, 23 Oct, Vadodara

Three teachers of Fine Arts in mood to resign, Support for Prof Mistry’s issues: no teacher left in the sculpture: The VC says: Uni in worse condition than Bihar, Syndicate Adjourned again: the case of pardon for an MLA’s daughter indicate tussle and Deanship of Fine Arts and dirty politics for a Senate vote, inside story of Dean Dhruva Mistry, Gujarat Samachar, 26 Oct, Vadodara

One vote and Mistry’s out as Fine Arts Dean, Newsline, Indian Express, Oct 27, Vadodara, p1

The Uni Syndicate accepts resignation of the Fine Arts Dean, proposal for abeyance of the resignation issue was voted upon: Five members walked out, Sandesh, Oct 27, Vadodara

Prof Dhruva Mistry resigns from all designations, Loksatta, Oct 27, Vadodara

One vote and Mistry’s out as Fine Arts Dean, Behind the-scenes manouevres to oust Mistry seemed to have gained the upper hand as his resignation was finally accepted by MSU Syndicate, The Indian Express, Newsline, Oct 28, Vadodara

Mistry asked to leave before the Syndicate meet, protests by four deans crushed: Anger in Uni circles, Gujuarat Samachar, Nov 30, Vadodara

Fourth meeting since last six months, Uni Syndicate meeting postponed due to lack of quorum: only seven members present, Sandesh, Nov 30, Vadodara

Just before the Syndicate meet, Uni authorities appoint Prof Deepak Kannal as In-charge Dean, Sandesh, Nov 30, Vadodara

MSU students go on ‘creative’ protest, The Times of India, 14 Dec, Ahmadabad Elections over, but poster war continues: Mistry the target, Newsline, Indian Express, 15 Dec, Vadodara, p1 Fine Arts students step up oust-Mistry crusade, Vadodara Newsline, Indian Express, 17 Dec, Vadodara, p1

Fine Arts strike, Teachers victimize students: Authorities silent, astonishing movement on even after departure of the Dean, Gujuarat Samachar, Dec 17, Vadodara

MSU V-C asks fine arts students to withdraw on-going agitation, The Times of India, 20 Dec, Ahmadabad, p3

Now teachers join oust-Mistry campaign & Fine Arts students strike it creative, Newsline, Indian Express, 21 Dec, Vadodara, p1

In the Fine Arts Faculty of the Uni; the Uni authorities’ unpardonable maneuvers and strike,

Teachers’ chargesheet against Prof Mistry: playing with future of the students, Gujarat Samachar, Dec 21, Vadodara

MSU students to hold ‘Un-fair 02’ as part of protest against Mistry, The Times of India, 23 Dec, Ahmadabad, p3

Fine Arts strike over, No decision on Mistry, Newsline, Indian Express, 25 Dec, Vadodara, p1

Reference: July-December 2002

Mistry adamant about quitting, Vadodara Newsline, Indian Express, 19 July, Vadodara Mistry issue: Bhandari seeks details, Newsline, Indian Express, Oct 22, Vadodara, p1 Syndicate to discuss resignation of Fine arts Dean, Governor seeks details: Uni authorities cover culprits against the Deanship, Gujarat Samachar, 23 Oct, Vadodara Three teachers of Fine Arts in mood to resign, Support for Prof Mistry’s issues: no teacher left in the sculpture: The VC says: Uni in worse condition than Bihar, Syndicate Adjourned again: the case of pardon for an MLA’s daughter indicate tussle and Deanship of Fine Arts and dirty politics for a Senate vote, inside story of Dean Dhruva Mistry, Gujarat Samachar, 26 Oct, Vadodara One vote and Mistry’s out as Fine Arts Dean, Newsline, Indian Express, Oct 27, Vadodara, p1 The Uni Syndicate accepts resignation of the Fine Arts Dean, proposal for abeyance of the resignation issue was voted upon: Five members walked out, Sandesh, Oct 27, Vadodara Prof Dhruva Mistry resigns from all designations, Loksatta, Oct 27, Vadodara One vote and Mistry’s out as Fine Arts Dean, Behind the-scenes manouevres to oust Mistry seemed to have gained the upper hand as his resignation was finally accepted by MSU Syndicate, The Indian Express, Newsline, Oct 28, Vadodara Mistry asked to leave before the Syndicate meet, protests by four deans crushed: Anger in Uni circles, Gujuarat Samachar, Nov 30, Vadodara Fourth meeting since last six months, Uni Syndicate meeting postponed due to lack of quorum: only seven members present, Sandesh, Nov 30, Vadodara Just before the Syndicate meet, Uni authorities appoint Prof Deepak Kannal as In-charge Dean, Sandesh, Nov 30, Vadodara MSU students go on ‘creative’ protest, The Times of India, 14 Dec, Ahmadabad Elections over, but poster war continues: Mistry the target, Newsline, Indian Express, 15 Dec, Vadodara, p1 Fine Arts students step up oust-Mistry crusade, Vadodara Newsline, Indian Express, 17 Dec, Vadodara, p1 Fine Arts strike, Teachers victimize students: Authorities silent, astonishing movement on even after departure of the Dean, Gujuarat Samachar, Dec 17, Vadodara MSU V-C asks fine arts students to withdraw on-going agitation, The Times of India, 20 Dec, Ahmadabad, p3 Now teachers join oust-Mistry campaign & Fine Arts students strike it creative, Newsline, Indian Express, 21 Dec, Vadodara, p1 In the Fine Arts Faculty of the Uni; the Uni authorities’ unpardonable maneuvers and strike, Teachers’ chargesheet against Prof Mistry: playing with future of the students, Gujarat Samachar, Dec 21, Vadodara MSU students to hold ‘Un-fair 02’ as part of protest against Mistry, The Times of India, 23 Dec, Ahmadabad, p3 Fine Arts strike over, No decision on Mistry, Newsline, Indian Express, 25 Dec, Vadodara, p1

External links

• Artist's own site
• A retrospective of his work at Another Subcontinent
• Dhruva Mistry at sculpture.org.uk
  • Portfolio