Blueprint12

22/04/2026

'Padmavikāsa translates to “the blooming of the lotus.” Rooted in Paithani weaving, the series explores how motifs evolve through experiments in placement, colour, and fragmentation. Individual design elements are isolated and arranged over abstract backgrounds, reflecting both symmetry and disruption. In Paithani, the lotus symbolises beauty, prosperity, and creative growth, often emerging from a vase. Here, the lotus and vase iconography becomes a symbol of unfolding potential, retaining its cultural meaning while expanding into new visual systems.'

- Tanvi Ranjan

.made 

The Padma Code will be on view till 30th April, 2026. Do visit us to see the displayed works and DM us for an e-catalogue.

Artwork details:
Levels of Padmavikāsa
6 colour computerized-knitted jacquard in bamboo,
cotton and metallic yarn
46" x 65"
Single edition

19/04/2026

Tanvi Ranjan’s practice operates at the precise intersection of mathematical logic and ancestral memory. After honing her craft through an MFA at Kingston University, she returned to India to interrogate the boundaries of the knitted form, transforming the binary language of jacquard technology into a vessel for cultural inquiry. This relationship with textile systems is also deeply personal: her grandfather, a textile designer in a power loom factory, spent his life translating patterns into grids and mechanical instructions - an early language of coded fabric that quietly shaped Tanvi’s own engagement with machines and pattern. For Tanvi, the knitting machine is not a tool of mass production but a "digital loom" capable of profound emotional intelligence. Her work begins in the archives of Indian heritage, which she deconstructs and reassembles through specialized software. Each piece is built loop by loop, pixel by pixel, creating a "knitted code" where data becomes tactile.

.made

The Padma Code will be on view till 30th April, 2026. Do visit us to see the displayed works and DM us for an e-catalogue.

15/04/2026

In this exhibition, Tanvi turns her attention to the lotus (padma in Sanskrit), a motif that has traversed centuries of Indian art, architecture, and textile traditions, carrying layered meanings of beauty, spirituality, and renewal. Drawing from visual lineages such as Chintz, Kantha, Pichwai, Ikat, Paithani, and Madhubani, she studies how the lotus has been continually reinterpreted across regions and communities. These references are distilled into drawings and translated into knitted jacquard textiles, where the artist works within the structural logic of knitting machines and a limited palette of six yarn colours. Pixels, the smallest unit of digital patterning, become a method for blending colour and form.

Across six interconnected series—Padmadhāriṇī, Padmālaṅkāra, Padmalīlā, Padmavikāsa, Padmagandha, and Padmabrahmāṇḍa—the lotus emerges as both image and algorithm: a generative structure through which traditions are translated, altered, and renewed. The Padma Code reflects on continuity and transformation, positioning textile practice as a site where cultural memory, technology, and artistic authorship converge.

.made 

The Padma Code will be on view till 30th April, 2026. Do visit us to see the displayed works and DM us for an e-catalogue.

10/04/2026

The Padma Code brings together a new body of works by Tanvi Ranjan, in collaboration with Mechaniya, the textile art studio she co-founded. Through Mechaniya, Tanvi expands her artistic practice into a collaborative space where textile, technology, and women’s labour intersect. The studio uses advanced knitting technology to reinterpret elements drawn from traditional Indian arts and crafts. These elements are deconstructed and rebuilt digitally, pixel by pixel, to create jacquard tapestries that connect India’s textile heritage with contemporary art.

.made

The Padma Code will be on view till 30th April, 2026. Do visit us to see the displayed works and DM us for an e-catalogue.

All image courtesy the artist and Blueprint12.

07/04/2026

Ongoing at Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bikaner House, Kingsley Gunatillake's solo presentation Endless Stairs.

Having trained as a painter in Colombo during the 1970s, Kingsley Gunatillake (b. 1951) was exposed to a unique style of abstraction, and with each body of work he evolves while simultaneously returning to his beginnings. ‘Endless Stairs’ is a display of abstraction composed of book art, sculptural installations, and paintings.

In numerous pieces of book art in ‘Endless Stairs’, Gunatillake examines knowledge, its foundations, acquisition, and ultimate destruction, inspired by the tragic losses of libraries in the recent history of Sri Lanka. Kingsley's five decades of work culminates in this exhibition, as a tribute to these moments among many others, linking Sri Lanka’s political history and knowledge through the symbol of the book.

Alongside this series of book art, Gunatillake returns to his abstract paintings, where the page becomes a canvas. The paint layering process is more intricate than usual in this new series as he experiments with patterns and motifs that peek through during moments of intense visual meditation.

𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛
8 April, 2026
11 AM — 6 PM



Visit the show today and DM us for an e-catalogue.

06/04/2026

Kingsley Gunatillake's solo presentation Endless Stairs, a solo presentation at Centre for Contemporary Arts Bikaner House.

Having trained as a painter in Colombo during the 1970s, Kingsley Gunatillake (b. 1951) was exposed to a unique style of abstraction, and with each body of work he evolves while simultaneously returning to his beginnings. ‘Endless Stairs’ is a display of abstraction composed of book art, sculptural installations, and paintings.

In numerous pieces of book art in ‘Endless Stairs’, Gunatillake examines knowledge, its foundations, acquisition, and ultimate destruction, inspired by the tragic losses of libraries in the recent history of Sri Lanka. Kingsley's five decades of work culminates in this exhibition, as a tribute to these moments among many others, linking Sri Lanka’s political history and knowledge through the symbol of the book. Each book is sourced second-hand, burned, and then branded with the military’s unwelcome involvement in library-burning protests in Sri Lanka. The welded steel figures of the military wield guns, stand ready to attack, and command a significant brooding presence over the text on each page. This is further signified with the tightly curated books in a single space, reminiscent of a library as well as a camp where troops would lie. 

Alongside this series of book art, Gunatillake returns to his abstract paintings, where the page becomes a canvas. The paint layering process is more intricate than usual in this new series as he experiments with patterns and motifs that peek through during moments of intense visual meditation.

𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛
8 April, 2026
11 AM — 6 PM



DM us for an e-catalogue.

06/04/2026

Kingsley Gunatillake's solo presentation Endless Stairs, a solo presentation at Centre for Contemporary Arts Bikaner House.

Having trained as a painter in Colombo during the 1970s, Kingsley Gunatillake (b. 1951) was exposed to a unique style of abstraction, and with each body of work he evolves while simultaneously returning to his beginnings. ‘Endless Stairs’ is a display of abstraction composed of book art, sculptural installations, and paintings.

In numerous pieces of book art in ‘Endless Stairs’, Gunatillake examines knowledge, its foundations, acquisition, and ultimate destruction, inspired by the tragic losses of libraries in the recent history of Sri Lanka. Kingsley's five decades of work culminates in this exhibition, as a tribute to these moments among many others, linking Sri Lanka’s political history and knowledge through the symbol of the book. Each book is sourced second-hand, burned, and then branded with the military’s unwelcome involvement in library-burning protests in Sri Lanka. The welded steel figures of the military wield guns, stand ready to attack, and command a significant brooding presence over the text on each page. This is further signified with the tightly curated books in a single space, reminiscent of a library as well as a camp where troops would lie. 

Alongside this series of book art, Gunatillake returns to his abstract paintings, where the page becomes a canvas. The paint layering process is more intricate than usual in this new series as he experiments with patterns and motifs that peek through during moments of intense visual meditation.

𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛
8 April, 2026
11 AM — 6 PM



Stay tuned for more updates!

03/04/2026

Kingsley Gunatillake's solo presentation Endless Stairs, a solo presentation at Centre for Contemporary Arts Bikaner House.

OPENING TODAY
3 April, 2026
5 PM — 8 PM
Ground Floor, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bikaner House, New Delhi

𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛
8 April, 2026
11 AM — 6 PM



Stay tuned for more updates!

02/04/2026

01/04/2026

In this exhibition, Tanvi turns her attention to the lotus (padma in Sanskrit), a motif that has traversed centuries of Indian art, architecture, and textile traditions, carrying layered meanings of beauty, spirituality, and renewal. Drawing from visual lineages such as Chintz, Kantha, Pichwai, Ikat, Paithani, and Madhubani, she studies how the lotus has been continually reinterpreted across regions and communities. These references are distilled into drawings and translated into knitted jacquard textiles, where the artist works within the structural logic of knitting machines and a limited palette of six yarn colours. Pixels, the smallest unit of digital patterning, become a method for blending colour and form.

Across six interconnected series—Padmadhāriṇī, Padmālaṅkāra, Padmalīlā, Padmavikāsa, Padmagandha, and Padmabrahmāṇḍa—the lotus emerges as both image and algorithm: a generative structure through which traditions are translated, altered, and renewed. The Padma Code reflects on continuity and transformation, positioning textile practice as a site where cultural memory, technology, and artistic authorship converge.

The Padma Code will be on view till 30th April, 2026. Do visit us to see the displayed works and DM us for an e-catalogue.

.made