Avtarjeet dhanjal biography of william

Born 1939, Dalla, near Ludhiana, Punjab, India.

Avtarjeet Dhanjal started his career as a carpenter, blacksmith and signwriter. Later he attended the Government College of Arts, Chandigarh, where he specialised in sculpture and clay modelling.

In 1970 he went to East Africa and taught in the Department of Visual Arts at Kenyatta University College, Nairobi until 1974.

Avtarjeet dhanjal biography of william

From 1974-75 he attended St Martin's School of Art in London; while there his experimental work in aluminium was noticed by Alcan Aluminium (UK) Ltd. He then spent a year at Alcan's factory at Tipton, Staffordshire. After some years living in London he moved to Ironbridge in Shropshire where he still lives and works.

Dhanjal's work draws heavily on his experience of Indian aesthetic traditions, blending them with the influence of European and specifically British modernist sculpture.

He has been active in schemes to encourage cultural links between Asia and Britain, organising a Punjabi folk cu