Anupama Alias focuses on depicting women at a transitional and vulnerable time in their lives: not the adolescent years that have been the focus of her works in the past few years, but the other transitional, in-between years: the ‘middle’ years. In a macro-metaphor, her work focuses on people, transitions, identity, and the ‘in-betweenness’ of existence. Anupama tries to unravel the implied desires and fluctuations of identity that womanhood has thrust upon her. The idea is to not just focus on the universality of womanhood but get to the essence of being a girl first, and a woman later.

 

Anupama completed her BFA and MFA in Applied Art from Govt. RLV College, Thripunithura, Kochi in 2011 and 2014 respectively. She has also completed an MFA in Painting from S N School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad in 2016.