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Bhajju Shyam (b. 1971)

Patangarh-born Pardhan Gond narrative artist renowned for The London Jungle Book and cosmopolitan Gond visual storytelling.

Pardhan Gond artist painting fine dot-and-scale forest motifs on paper

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Pardhan Gond artist painting fine dot-and-scale forest motifs on paper
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Apprenticed at sixteen in Bhopal under his uncle Jangarh Singh Shyam, Bhajju Shyam fused Pardhan Gond cosmological trees, double-headed beasts, and rhythmic nib-infill textures with first-hand visual travelogue—most famously painting London's Underground as an earthworm and Big Ben as a rooster in The London Jungle Book (2004). 1

His canvases and illustrated monographs reside in museum collections across Europe and Asia, recognised with the Ojas Art Award and the Padma Shri (2018). 1

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Pardhan Gond Signature-Pattern Painting
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The London Jungle Book & Pardhan Gond Visual NarrativeTara Books / Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, 2018—
"Bhajju Shyam (b. 1971)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/bhajju-shyam · CC BY-SA 4.0.