Works – Copy – Shilpa Nayudu

Porous Membranes

The world is imagined as a body. Territories are shared and borders are delicate spaces for exchange and equilibrium.

Inspired by the delicate architecture of the lung’s alveoli, this thread-based work traces the invisible choreography of breath. The embroidery renders respiration as a tactile landscape, gently sustained through repetition.

Synthesis

Organic forms, inspired by cellular and anatomical landscapes, emerge through layered pigment and stitched networks. Synthesis brings together paper and textile through interlaced fibres, merging fragility with structure.

Threshold

Merging fibre, embroidery, and watercolour on paper the artist explores fluidity pathways of the body. Layered fibres and stitched pathways evoke circulation and permeability and body’s delicate fluid equilibrium.

Irregular Lattice

Irregular Lattice - the continuum draws from the behaviour of the connective tissue - its elasticity, adaptability, porosity and quiet strength.

We Are All One

We Are All One is a participatory community artwork that invites collective reflection on the invisible yet fundamental units of human existence : the cells of our body.

Soft Resilience

Soft Resilience evokes the body’s innate capacity to heal - a landscape of repair, where damage is not erased but transformed, leaving behind subtle traces of survival and resilience.

Traces of Renewal

Through cyanotypes of worn textiles, overlaid with drifting cellular forms and asemic threadwork - an intimate language of regeneration emerges in Traces of Renewal, the work treats textile as a living archive.

Invisible Pathways

Tracing the invisible physiological pathways that hold us together. Honouring the quiet intelligence that allows us to live, sense, and endure.

Quiet Contemplations

Atmospheric and ethereal translations of felt experience, inspired the artist's my daily walks along the sea shore.

A Collective Portrait of Pain

Pain is one of the most human attributes of our ephemeral existence. Taking inspiration from her own and 75 other peoples' lived experience of pain this project came to life.

Savouring the Moments of Sanity

This triptych unfolds as an autobiographical landscape of a time marked by pain, vulnerability, and endurance. Emerging from a difficult phase in the artist’s life, the paintings gather fragments of what sustained her—small, luminous sources of hope and joy.