It is believed that a person who is well-travelled is well-versed with multi-cultural influences and, eventually, his or her work speaks a multi-dimensional language. As contemporary artist Nataraj Sharma articulates, “I have always been interested in mixing media, in mixed media, in mixing every damned thing up.”
Nataraj Sharma was born in the south Indian city of Mysore in Karnataka, but thanks to his father’s restlessness, the artist grew up in various cities across the world, mainly Ethiopia, Zambia and the United Kingdom. These experiences enabled the artist to understand and appreciate the dynamics of being uprooted from one’s homeland and the complexities of race, culture, language, dress, art, architecture and various other parameters that eventually divide and define the human race.