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Mr. Sudarshan Pattnaik, Sand Artist
Mr. Sudarshan Pattnaik was
born in the coastal town of Puri, Orissa. Being inspired by
the voice of his inner soul he started visiting the sea
beach at Puri every day right from his childhood. Slowly he
started carving out different faces of gods and goddesses in
sand with his imagination and creativity. Initially the
forms were not mature as he had no Guru because sand art is
not considered as a professional form of art in India.
Despite these limitations he pursued in his endeavor as he
considered the creativity in him is God gifted ability. He
took up the challenge to popularize sand art as a
professional art form and started exhibiting sand art at
various places in India.
Pattnaik’s ultimate objective is to create awareness and
enthusiasm among the people and make it popular professional
art form among the people for which he is traveling various
places in the country and demonstrating this art form by
holding work shops and training. Time and again he has tried
to replicate various international events through Sand art.
recently he made a 4 feet gigh sculpture of Pop King Michael
Jackson at Puri. The video link is given below.
He has established "The Golden Sand Art Institute” which is
first of it’s nature in India.
GOLDEN SAND ART INSTITUTE:
A dream to realize, a strong zeal in the heart and a
dedicated art lover, Sudarshan not only mastered the art,
but was keen to propagate the same to others. The
determination of this man, support and a consorted effort
from his friends in Puri, culminated in the formation of
“Golden Sand Art Institute” in the year 1994. The institute
is an open air institute with no boundaries and limitation,
with sands below the feet and the sky above the head, the
institute is located in the sea shore that spans between
Hotel May Fair Beach Resort and the Panthanivas in Puri.
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS:
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UNITED KINGDOM: Exhibited
during the World Travel Market's 1998 at Earls Court,
LONDON with support of Govt. Of India Tourist Office,
London.
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UNITED KINGDOM: Exhibited
during the World cup Cricket-1999 held at Edgbaston,
United Kingdom.
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FRANCE : World sand
Sculpturing Championship at France 2000 representing
India.
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CHINA : International Sand
Sculpturing Championship 2000 at China representing India.
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UNITED KINGDOM:
International Sand Sculpturing Championship 2000 at
Glasgow represnting India.
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SINGAPORE : Particcipated
in SANTOSA SAND STATION 2001 3 June "Spledours of Golden
Asia" at Singapore represnting India.
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DENMARK : International
Sand Sculpture Festival 2001 Blokhus on 25 June
representing India.
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ITALY : 3rd Prize in
World's Master Sand Sculpture's championship 2001
on 16
July at Italy.
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NETHERLANDS :Singles
International Sand Sculpting competition at Scheveningen,
Holland representing India on 6 May 2001 & 6 May 2002.
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JAPAN : Champion Medal in
"29th International Snow Statue Contest - 2002" at
Sapporo, Japan.
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BELGIUM : Sand Sculpture
Festival Blankenberge 2002 at Belgium in June.
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NETHERLANDS : The Dutch
Sand Sculpture festival Thorn 2002 -2003 at Holland in July.
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CHINA : The 1st China
Ningxia Sand Lake International Sand Sculpture
Events-2002 3rd Aug to 10th Aug representing India.
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CHINA : The 3rd Luilang
Colour Sand Festival Demonstration Prize at China 2003.
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SPAIN : 2nd Prize in
International Sand Sculpture Championship at Valadoli,
Spain 2003.
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GERMANY : 3rd prize at
Berlin International Sand Sculpture Championship at
Germany 2003.
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CHINA : 4th Prize at China
International Sand Sculpture Competition 2003.
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UAE : Sand Sculpture
Demonstration at Muskat festival 2004 at Oman.
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GERMANY : Participated at
Sand World festival at Travemunda at Germany 2003-04.
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GERMANY : Public Prize at
2nd Berlin Sand Station Competition 2004.
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AUSTRALIA : Participated at
Sand Sculpturing Australia 2004 at Melbourne.
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USA : Participated in
Houston international Festival-2005 at Houston, Texas. Taj
Mahal recreated in sand.
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GERMANY : 1st Prize at 3rd
Berlin International Sand Sculpture Competition 2005.
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GERMANY : 1st Prize at
Berlin World Sand Art Competition-2008.
SPECIAL ACHIEVMENTS :
Providing training to artists through open air Golden sand
art institute at Puri beach, as institute which he started
in 1994 with a view to make these students learn and
develop sand art as a professional art form. Students from
India and abroad are enrolled for projects, regular and
short term courses. His objective is to include sand art
as a regular curriculum in the schools of art and culture.
Published a book regarding SAND ART.
Conducted training and workshops and demonstrated the art
form in different fairs and festivals around the country
to promote and popularize this form in India.
He took current national and international events on
social problems such as world peace, wild life, Terrorism,
HIV-AIDS, world Sports and problems of similar nature and
depicted it through the form of sand artto create public
awareness which is covered by National and International
media like BBC, CNN, ABC, Doordarshan, Discovery, National
Geography and others.
Limca Book felicitated internationally acclaimed sand
artist Sudarshan Pattnaik during the release of 20th
edition of Limca Book of Records 2009 at New Delhi.
Pattnaik was felicitated for being among the 20 People of
the year.
Email:
sudarsansand@gmail.com
odisha.com web directory:www.odisha.com/2010/sudarshanpattnaik/
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