Bairu Raghuram: a rarety

Digital Artworks visited an art gallery run by Bairu Raghuram, a revered artist, who designed many a artworks with his accuracy in etching. Raghuram made every attempt to shiw to the world the pratices, rural living standards, and beliefs of rural Telangana.

Bairu Raghuram is one of his kind the Indian art community has ever seen. Raghuram tries to craft pictures based on nature where woman, streets, plants and other living and non living objects fall in. His seemingly orthodox approach in creating master pieces offers much more than what one really comprehends. His portrayal of 'eyes' in every artwork is a calming retreat to viewers. His penchant for depicting nature to reflect human and object forms testimonies part of creativity he is imbibed with. Raghuram's engravings echo the Telangana lifestyle and particularly rural traditional practices and beliefs. His artworks, "woman sitting with a goat", "rural house order with a cock on the wall", "environment", tells how deep his observation is and testimonies his stylization. He is now on a mission to spread naturalism in a versatile manner.

Raghuram was born in 1949 at Hyderabad and was educated in Gulburga,Karnataka with a B.A.and a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from I F A I ,Gulburga, Karnataka.

Raghuram is the recipient of many awards, including Gold medal from Hyderabad Art Society, National Academy Award (Honorable Mention)

Some of the revered artist's achievements:

Group Shows:
1977, 81, 84, : Gulbarga, Visakhapatnam, New Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad.
93 and 96


One Man Shows:
1991 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay (Financial Assistance by Telugu University), Hyderabad.

1993 : Alliance francaise art gallery, Hyderabad.
1996 : Jehangir Art Gallery


Professional Career:
Worked as freelance artist and contributed illustrations and cover page paintings in weekly and monthly magazines and various educational books.


Participation:
1985,6,97 : National Art Exhibition
1985 : Artists' conference New Delhi
1985 : Graphic art in India since 1850: Catalog published by LKA New Delhi.
1987,92 : Regional Art Exhibition, Lalith Kala Academy, Madras.
1987 : American Video Festival in India organized by U.S.I.S. Madras, and   Doordarshan Kendra Kendra Hyderabad.

1989,91 : I.F.A.C.S.Exhibition, New Delhi.
1990 : Art in India conference New Delhi.
1990 & '95 : Invitee all India drawing and graphic exhibition, Gulbarga.
1990 : All India Art Exhibition.
1991, 95 : International biennial of prints, Bharath Bhavan, Bhopal.
1991,94 : Rashtriya Kala Mela Bombay, Delhi and Calcutta.
1992 : All India miniature formal, Gulbarga, Karnataka
1993 : Prints today, Lalith Kala Akademi, Bangalore
1994 : Exhibition of paintings, organized by Bharath Bhavan, Bhopal(Earth quake relief fund)

1996 : All India Art Exhibition(125 Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi) L.K.A., UP., Lucknow.

1997 : 8th All India Art Exhibition LKA, UP, Lucknow.


Camps:
1984 : Graphic Workshop organized by A.P. Lalith Kala Academy, Hyderabad.
1984 : Print making workshop sponsored by U.S.I.S. Madras and C FA, Hyderabad conducted by Prof. Paul Lingren at AP Lalith Kala Academy, Hyderabad.

1989 : All India graphic camp organized by I.F.A.I Gulbarga, Karnataka.
1992 : Graphic camp organized by alliance francaise and C FA, Hyderabad.
1993 : Graphic camp organized by Lalith Kala Akademi, Regional Center, Madras
1994 : All India Painters Camp, Bijapur, Karnataka.
1996 : All India Painters Camp, Madhapur, Hyderabad, sponsored by Surabhi educational society.

1996 : Traditional painting camp organized by S.C.Z.C.C., Nagpur.
1996 : All India traditional painting camp organized by S.C.Z.C.C., Thanjavure.


Awards:
1981 & '85 : Bharat Kala Parishad, AP, Hyderabad.
1983, 87, : Hyderabad Art society, A.P., Hyderabad.
88, 93

1987 & '89 : Best Award (87) Lalith Kala Samithi, AP.
1994 : Creative Akademi of Arts, AP
1996 : Gold Medal, Hyderabad Art Society
1997 : National Academy Award (Honorable Mention)


Collections:


* The Ideal Fine Art Institute Gulbarga, Karnataka
* Lalith Kala Akademi New Delhi
* Lalith Kala Akademi
* Regional Center Madras
* Lalitha Kala Akademi AP, Hyderabad.
* Telugu University, AP, Hyderabad.
* Lalitha Kala Samithi, AP
* W.S. Hughes, Director, Hallburton Oilfield Services India Ltd,. Bombay.
* Alliance Francaise, Hyderabad.
* Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
* Franco Indian Pharmaceuticals Ltd,. Mumbai.
* I.T.C. Tobacco, Secunderabad
* U.P. State Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow.

Victoria Capital Ventares Ltd,. Mumbai and many other private collections in India and abroad(UK, USA, France, Switzerland, Germany and Canada.