Looking Through

Ruchi Shah is a book illustrator / wall artist. She is an alumnus of University of the Arts, London and IDC, IIT Bombay. She received the Charles Wallace Scholarship in 2012 through the British Council. After working in Yahoo as a senior designer, she quit in 2010 to work independently. She has illustrated more than 30 books, some which have been published multilingually. Some of her works include Our Incredible Cow, A Book is a Bee, I am so much more and Travelling Patterns. She also facilitates art workshops across different regions of India and Uganda. She received the British Council’s Social Impact Award in 2018 for her work. Apart from book illustrations created for Tulika Books, Harper Collins, Pickle Yolk Books, Pratham Books and Tara Books, Ruchi is also a muralist who has designed spaces for many organizations like Amazon, Quint-Bloomberg, Condé Nast and Freshworks. Her art explores places, spaces, materials and stories of everyday life. She creates images through printmaking, book-binding, murals, collage, assemblage and installation art.

Various & Gould are a Berlin-based art duo who have shaped the city’s urban art landscape for nearly two decades. Known for their posters, murals, and public-space interventions, they use art as social engagement—challenging prejudice, celebrating human diversity, and responding to the environments they work in. Influenced by political poster design, Dada, and activism, their practice ranges from large site-specific murals such as Face Time (Berlin, 2015) to participatory projects like Monumental Shadows (2021), examining Europe’s colonial memory. Graduates of the Berlin-Weissensee School of Art, they have exhibited internationally, with works in major collections including Urban Nation and the Museum of Design, Zurich.