‘I did my BFA in Sculpture from the College of Arts, Delhi, and enjoyed the period of learning there. I started up my sculptures with metal and fiber. Later, I experimented more with metal and recreated some innovative form of scooter, for instance, as a Swan. Later, my creativity took another dimension and I started working with metal and real bones. Using different themes and applying the versatility of different metals, I worked on the human anatomy and bones with specifications as the backbone, hip bone, etc. I started using feathers on my metal structures to achieve a more inventive form, and I feel that the use of feathers affixes some liveliness to my sculptures.’
An early training in sculpture and a commitment to artisanal values have guided Lohit Sharma through successive periods of experimentation. His sculptures are innovative and inventively finished. He works mostly with metal and feathers that have a fresh and lively form. His sculptures evoke mystery, beauty, and agony with a unique blend of flimsiness and firmness, attained by the use of feathers on the hard metal base. He has evoked a personal language full of references to human anatomy and the animal kingdom.
Lohit Sharma was born in 1989. He has attained his BFA degree from the College of Arts, Delhi.
He has worked for Westin Resort in Sohna, 2011 and worked for the Gujarat pavilion in the Trade Fair, Pragati Maidan, in 2012.
He has been awarded the Montreal Protocol Global partnership for global benefit and also got 2nd position in a painting competition, 2008. Lohit was conferred with the award for excellence in painting in Guru Shishya Parampara, 2008 (Bhiku Ram Jain Foundation, New Delhi).
His works are in the collection of Nirupa Jain and Assemblage Sculpture: 83, Defence Colony, New Delhi.
