Artists

I Made Sumadiyasa who goes by the name Made was born in Bali 8 February 1971, Made is a young and dynamic Balinese artist whose expressive paintings encompass a universal spirit. His visual language goes beyond form and illusion, creating intense levels of emotion. He focuses on movement and color to bring out the spiritual essence of his subject.

For about 25 years he has been working in different fields of art as he is as much as talented in visual and performance art. His works are mainly inspired by the philosophy of life in Balinese-Hindu perspective called Trimurti, in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified by the forms of Brahma the creator, Visnu the maintainer or preserver, and Siva the destroyer or transformer.

I Wayan Wirawan is one of Bali’s leading contemporary artists, primarily a painter who initially trained in the Batuan style of painting. Aside from painting, Wirawan also works in carving, sculpture and installation.

In his more recent series of paintings Pande uses a semi-abstract style to depict figures whose gestures communicate a sense of both vulnerability and protectiveness.

In the recent years, Suwidiarta's works are full with mockery and irony on people's life, with a shifting to spiritual issues.

In his early paintings, Suklu exploited the psychological problems that he had lived through. Suklu, whose mother left when he was a child, was forever obsessed with women. Female figures became the dominating theme in his early paintings. His later works, particularly since 1997 have since gradually changed, and given way to visual artworks that showed repetitive forms.

Sudarna present views of his perceptions and images of reality through parodies. He gives fresh meaning to common views by shifting the context or direction of logic so that they are twisted around.

Buda’s abstract paintings juxtapose urban and ritual life. The geometric shapes in his work represent buildings, windows and doors, which overlap more fluid elements, which represent nature.

Budi Agung Kuswara views material as a living character and is not limited to objects or subjects, and viewing technicality as an vehicle in representing the character of every material he used including visual archive that speak about histories.

A versatile artist, his distinctive style appears in his paintings, sculptures and other three-dimensional objects, and installation art, even performance art and murals.

Kenyem works in a meticulously detailed manner, often with calligraphic fields. Iconic to his paintings are small androgynous figures that appear to be dancing. Trees and especially leaves are a recurrent visual motif, as are large hovering rocks.

Donal wishes to revive and embody the "tradition" of painting in the history of the development of modern art through the method of painting on the spot.

Nature is the main source of creative inspiration for Sujena. His paintings articulate the revelation of nature.They reflect an ecological awareness that recognizes the fundamental relation between nature and the human.

Hanafi is widely known as a painter, despite working for decades with a variety of artistic media. Graduating from the Indonesian Fine Arts School, Yogyakarta in 1979.

There is an acute sensation of speed in Bonuz's works. Especially in large paintings, there is often a strong impression of something exploding. The field of the canvas looks as if the sky is staging a cosmic drama.