Archana Hande’s artwork and creative practice has always extended into diverse modes, venues, concerns and forms. She has with ease slipped into the intersecting roles of activist, facilitator, interventionist, and maker all wrapped into one. Her interests have led her to draw upon a variety of resources, her projects having often taken-on an involved collaborative spirit. Archana Hande lives and works out of Banaglore, the city of her birth (1970), and Mumbai. She has a B.F.A in printmaking from Viswa-Bharati, Santiniketan (1986-1991), and an M.F.A in printmaking from M. S. University, Baroda (1991-1993). In 2000, she won the Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Award to participate in the Glasgow School of Arts Residency Program.

In this series of hand painted photographs, Archana once again revokes back to her marriage concept. She uses found photographs (also part of her oeuvre) to invoke a certain era. These are hand painted photographs of couples from varying communities and parts of India. Found photographs, she goes on to painting them in the way old painted photographs were done.
Her ongoing pre-occupations, kitch, marriage websites, history, all converge into a contemporary take on this particular form of kitch, calendar art.

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