Krishna Sheth is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Ahmedabad, India, whose practice centres on “presence”—attuning herself to her internal and external environment. Working across calligraphy, installation, performance, and ecological art, she responds keenly to unfolding moments through observation, reflection, and an ongoing dialogue with her surroundings. These instances of awareness anchor her creative process.
Sheth earned her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts (Applied Arts) from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and then pursued a Master’s in Visual Communication at Srishti Manipal Institute, Bangalore. While studying, she attended an exchange semester at Linnaeus University, Sweden, where her focus on Climate Emergency Studies heightened her ecological awareness, perception, and site-specific practice.
As a practitioner who works with her mother tongue, Gujarati, she explores the script in different forms beyond its classical usage and interpretation, making it more playful and engaging for everyone who interacts with the work. She also combines her practice of writing poems and scribbling conversations with calligraphy and other visual mediums, presenting them in a way that allows people to engage and immerse themselves in them. Some of these outcomes include art installations, scribbling poems, and conversations with the people living in the city where she belongs. Also in the book compilations, she has used illustrations, drawings and cyanotype visuals with poems, designing the books in a way that makes the experience more profound, and the moment of pause can be experienced by the people interacting with them. She works in both the directions, where people can engage with her work in their own spaces and one which is in a public space, where the surroundings affect the way one is going to experience the work. She also translated her ecological and poetic reflections into an art installation, where the architecture and space added to the dialogue she wished to create.
To extend the practice of being in the present, she vigorously went on finding new ways to explore the relationship between ecology and creative practice while being more present with the ecological spaces around her. The explorations led her to make ‘Eco-Letters’: using the found natural elements, the letterform is crafted, aligning with the practice of calligraphy, language and poetry. Another such experiment with being in the present led her to do the calligraphy performance, where she let the strokes get influenced by the live music while attempting to make letterforms.
To share the practice of Ecological consciousness through creative practices, she started an eco-art initiative called ‘KOSH’, which literally translates as ‘cell’: the smallest fundamental unit of any living being. Having that concept in mind, let’s connect with the ecological spaces around us on an individual level, use the creative practices that are very intuitive to humans to engage with the natural landscape and really see what we are part of. With this approach, she offers curated experiences, workshops and hosts public events in open and natural settings.
View some of the projects here: #
- Lay ni Shodhma In seach of Harmony ~ book exploring harmony in river ecosystems and self
- Abstract Calligraphy
- Calligraphy installations
- Paachi vadi - installation on “returning back” (to hometown)
- Pele par (at the other side ~ book with Cyanotype and poetry)
- Kosh Collective
- Wearable Art