Born in 1964, Parvathi Nayar is an acclaimed Chennai-based artist known for her multidisciplinary art that revolves around complex drawing practices, video, photography and installation. Parvathi received her Master"s in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and her Bachelor's in Fine Art from Stella Maris College, Chennai. Parvathi"s artworks are abstract and realistic and simple and complex all at once, reflecting on human engagement with the environment and the philosophies of inhabiting it. Her black-and-white graphite drawings look at the internal, intimate spaces within our bodies and the external, public spaces in which we live, often through the prism of science and technology.