The Initiative
Sarjapura Curries is a homegrown art and farm project of a well-accomplished artist, Mr Suresh Kumar G.
Sarjapura Curries is a handcrafted farm space, that revives and conserves lost varieties of greens and vegetables, It is also an artistic approach to creating green patches with minimal intervention of machines and to bring urban and rural communities together to share harvest and exchange seeds and saplings. The idea is to provide healthy food-growing options to everyone around
The Initiator
Born in 1973, Suresh Kumar G, is a Bangalore-based performance Artist, Arts facilitator and Arts mentor, with an M.F.A(Sculpture) from Delhi College of Art(2000).
His earlier practice involves large-scale sculptural installations, and site-specific works, addressing social & environmental issues as well as issues concerning the community and surroundings he lives and belongs to. He has an interdisciplinary, approach to art, questioning notions and their proposed alternatives within the contemporary art practice outside the commercial and gallery module.
Being one of the founding members and an active member of BAR 1, (the oldest Bangalore-based Artist Residency program in India) he has initiated and supported Arts programs for BAR 1 for the promotion of inter-city artist exchange programs and pedagogy in arts. In 2009, he initiated the “Samuha” Artists Initiative and Collective, which was conceived as a time-bound Art and community project calling space for art, preparing the common ground for facilitation and curation for artists in town.
Currently, he is working on a community gardening project called “Sarjapura Curries”, archiving, reviving the lost knowledge of growing wild vegetables and greens in natural farming methods and digitally archiving the findings and recipes of the region.
This has been his dream project since he was a little boy, who visited his maternal grandparents’ Village in sub-urban Bangalore known as Sarjapura. Suresh has painstakingly grown and nurtured these rare varieties of greens along with other lost varieties of vegetables in the villages of B.Hosahalli and V.Kallahalli in Sarjapura Hobli, Anekal Taluk.