In Shreyasi Chatterjee’s artwork the idiom “a stitch in time, saves nine” takes on a profound metaphorical meaning. Particularly, in the context of a woman’s role as a wife, a mother and an individual. It is usually the woman who patches up things to accept, to mend for security or improvement, thereby getting a layered humanity and sensitivity. She uses stitch to animate the surface and perhaps also suggest the steps of human thought. Says Shreyasi, “At one level I’m trying to appropriate the language of creative craft so that it assumes a metaphorical significance.”

Chatterjee’s work is not only metaphorical it also has architectural elements of a cityscape. Although her art pieces are deeply contemplative, they are essentially celebratory and strongly gendered. Educated in Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan and Goldsmiths College, London, Shreyasi studied the Indian miniatures and her art practice has been deeply influenced by the miniature tradition.