Nisha Mathew
Nisha Mathew Ghosh began her practice over 25 years ago, and has become a renowned name not just in the architectural community in India and internationally, but also in related domains of artistic practice. Some of her seminal collaborative works are the architectural and landscape project for The Bhopal Gas Tragedy Memorial, as well as the unique home - House of Stories and The National Military Martyrs Memorial.

Nisha Mathew’s artistic practice may be seen as one that is curatorial by nature, and is a hybrid artistic endeavour that straddles textile art, architecture and landscapes. In 2021 she was the Curator for the India Pavilion, London Design Biennale.

She has something to voice in her observation of the world around her and her interest in the spiritual, and her practice moves fluidly across these domains as a confluence of many strands.Her vision is fueled by a pressing innate need for a conceptual positioning in the liminal space between these domains.

While her art group art shows curated by Bose Krishnamachari have been shown at Muziris Kochi Biennale Foundation, Bodhi Gallery, and Gallery BMB in Mumbai, and one of her woven works shown at The Teatro Armani at the Wallpaper International Design exhibition, her real interest lies in being able to include art practices as diverse as textiles by women across boundaries of economics and rural-urban to critically look at the how art practice may become less elitist and inclusive. She has been toying with the idea of a curated show for textile artists.

She works extensively with textile embellishment, interested in the documentation of artistic practices of women via their textile stories, and the woven artefact as a means to communicate the narrative, and most of her works tend to be installations that use multiple materials that eke out a symbolic abstraction. Her interest in American textile works such as quilting and the story of sustainability is fueled by a history that is rich in its documented textile work. She is presently a Fellow of the Association of Art Museum Curators, USA 2022 and is working on her foundation project in the Kolar Gold Fields area for upcycling of fabric waste and empowerment of the unemployed adults, mostly women, after the closing down of the fields in 2001.

Soumitro Ghosh
Soumitro is a Partner in Mathew and Ghosh Architects, a partnership founded by Nisha Mathew in 1995. Educated at the School of Architecture CEPT Ahmedabad Soumitro Ghosh has earlier worked with Pritzker Laureate B.V. Doshi, R.J. Vasavada, Neelkanth Chaaya, K B Jain and others before beginning this collaborative multidirectional practice.

The practice covers a wide spectrum and range from projects / ideas to do with the urban environment, sustainability, architecture, space, interiors, product design and so on. Some of the executed projects include urban/ people park and memorial, hospitality focussed projects, conservation, industrial facilities, corporate offices, religious and residential buildings, exhibition design, interiors, furniture, jewellery, art and installations.

He has taught at the Bengal Institute, Dhaka, been the Charles Correa Design Chair, juror, panellist etc. at numerous institutions, occasions and forums. He began his journey of teaching with Kumar Vyas, founding member of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

He has personal interest lies in crossings of politics, philosophy, culture and history to strive and understand the society we live in and design for.