The Open Studio / Shivam Aggarwal
Shivam Aggarwal
The World Within
Sky for a chest, a pigeon for a head
Night the colour of ink. Pigeons cross it without a sound.
A bird's head looks out with orange eyes, calm and a little sad.
Inside the chest there is a summer sky. Clouds drift where a heart should be.
A pink pipe pours grain like sand in a clock.
Bubbles float past. Each one holds a small gold shard.
Below, the brown earth is full of empty holes.
The work
Shivam Aggarwal paints a figure with the head of a pigeon. Small pigeons sit on top of its head. Two more fly across a deep blue night. The body is a shape cut from a pale sky with soft white clouds. A pink tube runs down from the throat and pours yellow grain into a heap. Bubbles float in the air. Aggarwal works in acrylic on canvas at 101.6 × 76.2 × 2.54 cm. He holds a BFA in Painting from the College of Art in Delhi.
- Theme
- The body as world
- Material
- Acrylic on canvas
- Size
- 101.6 × 76.2 × 2.54 cm
- Year
- 2026
- Edition
- 1
- Framed
- No
- About the artist
- College of art
- From
- New Delhi
- Code
- RC-368
In the artist’s words
I'm Shivam Aggarwal, an emerging visual artist based in Delhi, India. I am currently completed my Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Painting from College of Art, Delhi, (INDIA).Throughout my academic journey, I have actively participated in various art competitions, which have helped me strengthen my technical skills and deepen my understanding of visual arts. My artistic practice is multidisciplinary, and I work across painting, printmaking, sculpture, and clay modeling. I have a strong interest in observational and live-based drawing and painting, especially still life, portrait studies, and outdoor plein-air painting. Through these practices, I explore form, light, texture, and the relationship between objects and their surrounding environment. During my…
