Thursday 18 September 2014

The Home Site of Bulu Imam


Bulu Imam wears many caps. First of all he is an activist for the protection of the environment and promotion of tribal culture and heritage. He is a self trained researcher and now a respected authority in many fields related to archaeology, tribal art, vernacular folklore and history, as well as an author with significant publications. He has taken part in scores of important international symposiums related to rockart, vernacular artforms, and the natural environment in which his papers have been published in the proceedings of the conferences. He was earlier involved in journalistic work to promote his passion for culture which evolved into serious research writings which have been published in some of the best academic and other research journals. His recent published books include Tribal Art and Culture of Jharkhand, Antiquarian Remains of Jharkhand (Aryan Books International & INTACH), The Nomadic Birhors of Hazaribagh (Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany). He lives in the Sanskriti Centre in Hazaribagh which he created in 1993 along with the museum of tribal art and culture and the Tribal Women Artists Cooperative. An artist and poet by temperament he still works  in these disciplines at the age of 72. His lives with his family at the Sankriti Centre from where he coordinates a wide variety of work internationally in the field of exhibiting tribal art and culture. He has since 1987 been the Convener of the Hazaribagh Chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). In 2012 he received the Gandhi International Peace Award in the House of Lords.

Sanskriti, Hazaribagh
Jharkhand, INDIA

Tel: 06546-264820 (m) 09905339231
Email: buluimam@gmail.com


There’s No Miracle Water Here, The Asia Mag, May, 2011
Tribal Hero, Resurgence, 2011
Creative Crusader, Democratic World, July 2014
Custodian of Culture, Sunday Guardian, 2016
Fighting for Jharkhand's Tribal Heritage, Your Story, 2017



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Monday 8 September 2014

Photo Gallery




 
Bulu Imam, Tarshito, Erwin Neumayer, and Philomina painting in Vicino Lantano Festiva, Udine, May 2008


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Saturday 30 August 2014

Tribal Women Artists Cooperative (TWAC)


Tribal Women Artists Cooperative, Sanskriti, Hazaribagh
The TWAC was formed in l993 from a project for creating tribal art funded by the Australian High Commission, New Delhi. This cooperative was founded and is directed by Bulu Imam, the environmentalist, who also happens to be the Regional Convener of the Hazaribagh chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). The raison d’etre for the founding of the cooperative was 1. To highlight illegal opencast coal mining and destruction of forests vital to the tribals as well as tigers and elephants using them as corridors, 2. For highlighting the prehistoric rockart of the region which is a continuing tradition in the art of the tribal people of the North Karanpura valley threatened since l987 by the opencast coal mining by the Central Coalfields Limited through the North Karanpura Coalfields Project which will destroy l800 sq. kilometers of forest and tribal lands and displace 203 tribal villages, and 3. To bring to the tribal women of the region a sense of strength in their identity and as a means of economic support in facing both official harassment in face of the mining project destabilizing their lives and the traditional contempt for these women in Indian society at large.  All moneys received through sale of artworks are divided into three accounts, A. The Sanskriti Welfare Fund for tribal women, B. The Sanskriti Employment Fund through which a third of all earnings goes directly to the artist, and C. Sanskriti Centre Maintenance fund. About fifty tribal women benefit from this unique self-support project which is being coordinated by Bulu Imam under the auspices of the INTACH, Hazaribagh Chapter.

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Saturday 23 August 2014

MAYUR Newsletter, INTACH Hazaribagh Chapter




The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) is a NGO that seeks to make strategic and timely intervention in order to conserve and promote India’s natural and cultural heritage. INTACH is a nation wide network of volunteers who spread awareness about heritage, preserve acts likely to degrade their regions cultural and natural wealth and act positively to preserve and enhance local heritage. INTACH today is the nation’s foremost and largest NGO working in the field of culture.
The Tribal Women Artists Cooperative is an association of mine displaced women who have been protesting against the coal mining in North Karanpura and who in 1995 formed themselves into a group under the aegis of INTACH to give publicity through exhibitions of their art in India and abroad of their situation due to the mining and the rich cultural heritage of their art which is a continuation of the mesolithic rockart of the region threatened by coal mining




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PHOTO GALLERY- Sanskriti Centre, Hazaribagh



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Exhibitions and Mural Painting Projects of TWAC

Hazaribagh Tribal Art Exhibition, State Museum Pigorini, Rome, 2011

List of International Khovar and Sohrai Exhibitions
Organized by the Tribal Women Artists Cooperative (TWAC)

Hogarth Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, 1995
National Gallery Of Australia Vision of Kings(shoppe), Canberra ,Jan. 1996
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, Sydney, May-June, 1996
Footscray Community Centre, Melbourne, Nov.-Dec. 1996
Morree Plains Gallery, Morree, NSW , Feb.1997
Freemantle Arts Centre, Perth, Western Australia, March 1997
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, Sydney,July-Aug, 1997
Bathurst Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW, Mar-May, 1998
Tamworth Art Centre, Tamworth, NSW, Dec-Feb. 1998
Gallery 482, Brisbane, Qld., Feb-April, 1998
Nexus Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Jun-July,1998
Hogarth Gallery, Paddington, Sydney Aug-Sept. 1998
Djamu Gallery, Customs House (Australian Museum), Circular Quay, Sydney, March-June 2000
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, May-June, 2000
Victoria Crafts Council, Melbourne, April May, 2001
Bellevue Gallery, Berlin, August,  2001
Therese Dion Gallery of Contemp. Art, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2001
Eppelheim Gallery, Germany, March-April, 2002
Kassel Gallery, Germany, July-August, 2002
Stuttgart Gallery, Germany, October, 2002
Boras Kunst Museum, Boras, Sweden, September,  2003
Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, September, 2003
Volkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, Sept.-Oct., 2003
Catholic Information Centre, Ludwigsberg, Feb.-March, 2004
State Museum of Ethnography (Volkerkunde), Dresden, May-Sept. 2004
Mandat International, Geneva, July, 2004
Indian Embassy, Berlin,  December 2005
Tarshito Studio,  Rome, July, 2006
Bari Studio, Milan, October, 2006
Wirtschaftswetter (Online Exhibition),  Germany, April- June, 2007
Eppelheim, Germany, June, 2007
Bonn, Germany, March, 2008
Girasole Galley, Udine, May, 2008
Museum Pigorini, Rome, May-Sept. 2008
Norden, Northern Germany, July, 2008
Emden, Northern Germany, Aug.2008
Tarshito Exhibition, Milan, March, 2009
Nehru Centre, London, April, 2009
Aachen, MISEREOR Centre, Germany, April, 2009
Two Exhibition in Hanover,Germany, May-June, 2010
Exhibition in Friebourg, Germany, April-May, 2010
Catholic Youth Organization, Linz, Austria, March, 2011
FIAN Office, Bad Honeff,  (Bonn), Germany, March, 2011
Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, March- June, 2011
Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient (ISIAO), Rome, Italy, April,2011
Milan Exhibition, Milan, Italy, April, 2011
Espace ENCAN, Arts Atlantic Festival, La Rochelle, France, Nov.,2011
Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, Aug.-Sept.  2012
Arts Atlantic Festival, La Rochelle, France, Nov.,  2013
Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, Oct.-Dec., 2015
SADACC Trrst, Norwich, July 2017
                        
Exhibitions in India

Gallery Chemould, Bombay, July, 1995
Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore, Sept-Oct,1996
India International Centre, New Delhi, Aug., 1998
Gallery Chemould, Calcutta, April, 1999
Gallery Chemould, Bombay, July-Aug, 1999
Paramparik Karigar (National Gallery of Modern Art), Bombay, Dec.1999
Cymroza Gallery, Bombay, March, 2000
Cymroza Gallery,  Bombay, August, 2002
Max Muller Bhavan, Delhi, August, 2002
Madras Crafts Council, Madras, 2003
Merkha Lutyens, New Delhi, March, 2007
Artisana, Crafts Council of West Bengal, Calcutta, February, 2009       

Major Collections
Australian Museum, Sydney
Art Gallery of New SouthWales, Sydney
Casula Art Centre, Casula, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Flinders Museum Collection, Adelaide   
Dietmar Rothermund Collection, Heidelberg
Volkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg
Museum of South Australia, Adelaide
Museum of West Australia, Perth
Museum of North Australia, Darwin
Museum of Northeast Australia, Cairns
(Late) Soli P.Godrej Collection, Bombay
Kekoo & Khorshed Gandhy collection, Bombay
Daniela Bezzi Collection, Milan 
Tarshito Studio, Rome (14 - 8’x8’ feet Cloth Paintings)
Marcus Leatherdale Collection, New York
Michel Sabatier Collection, La Rochelle, France
INTACH Collection, New Delhi
Museum of Man Collection, Montreal
South Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi
Museum Rietberg, Zurich,Switzerland (Search: 1. Philomena Tirkey, 2. Putli Ganju)
Espace de Congress, La Rochelle, France
Volkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg
S.P.Godrej Collection, Bombay
British Museum, London
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge


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The Painted Houses and the Women Artists of Hazaribagh

A Kurmi Sohrai house in Bhelwara village
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