Anjali Parekh’s (b. 2000) practice is rooted in an attentive observation of nature’s quiet resilience in spaces often overlooked or dismissed. Weeds sprouting through cracks, roots running along walls, or vacant plots teeming with wild growth become, for her, powerful metaphors of persistence and renewal. Through viscosity and collograph printmaking, she translates these subtle encounters into layered, tactile surfaces, where colour and texture unfold intuitively. Each print is less a representation than a record of survival, capturing the tension between human attempts to control the environment and the quiet insistence of the natural world to reclaim its place.

Parekh’s engagement with printmaking techniques is both technical and conceptual: the unpredictability of viscosity printing, with its capacity for chance outcomes, mirrors the way nature asserts itself despite constraint. Her work opens up dialogues about visibility, neglect, and the fragile negotiations between human spaces and ecological forces, positioning her practice as a reflection on resilience, adaptation, and coexistence.

She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat (2018–2022), and her Master’s in Visual Arts with a specialization in Graphic Arts at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2023–2025). Her works have recently been shown at Out of Syllabus (Frida Art House, Pune, 2024), the Open Studio at Artspace Hissa (Surat, 2022), and her BFA Degree Show at Ramchandra Tulsian Art Gallery (Surat, 2022).