[full version unknown] Lakshmannan

Career Artist

Biography An Indian metal craftsman / artist according to accession book [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 13/02/2007]

County Yorkshire

Relationship Maker

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1981 - 1982

Date made around 1981 - 1982

Dates active Unknown, active 1981-1982

Donated around 1999

English collections Wax figure of a seated person holding a spear in one hand and a staff-like object in the other. The figure was made in the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield by the Indian metal craftsman Lakshmannan. He and about eight other craftsmen and women from different parts of India toured with the exhibition The Living Arts of India, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1981 / 1982. The figures 1999.42.1 and 1999.42.2 were given to the donor by Lakshmannan, the maker.

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 2

Connections James Hamilton