George Chakravarthi is a multidisciplinary artist who works with visual and live art performance using his body and self-image to explore the politics of identity. He also employs religious and spiritual iconography referencing his multi-faith upbringing, predominantly Hinduism and Catholicism. As a multi-disciplinary artist, he draws inspiration from a diverse range of cultures, histories and practices.

Specific public sites and private spaces are integral to the work, as are autobiographical and collective social and visual histories. His own physical presence throughout the works has been vital in creating dialogues about the body as site, visibility, race and queer identities. Chakravarthi’s self-portraits often offer intimate access to the psyche through personas and alters, interventions and collaborations, eliciting the viewer’s own revelations and conclusions through live, photographic and video works.

In recent years his practice has expanded in the direction of the ethereal, mystical and esoteric knowledges and ideas, ancestral memory, consciousness and the sanctity of flora and fauna.

Culture-specific rituals and Yogas are explored in his upcoming exhibition of paintings, exploring indigenous Indian and Tantric practices as a tool to move away from form identity and towards the essence identity.

He has performed and exhibited nationally around the UK at venues including Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Site Gallery, and internationally in Germany, Spain, Norway, Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Canada, USA and India.

He has studied at The Royal Academy of Arts and The Royal College of Art.

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