Sunali Narshai is a South African visual artist living in Montreal. With a bold and graphic style, Narshai’s work plays between art and design. Grounded in drawing and working primarily on paper, she uses a combined approach of calligraphic tools, painting, and collage to develop compositions.
Narshai gently navigates a diasporic identity that is sensitive to an ever-changing environment. Concerned with the versatility and diversity of the self, she has developed a broad visual vocabulary that remains fluid and adaptive––producing both modern abstractions and figurations. Her explorations of colour and shape intend to find harmony and balance for emotional aesthetics that appeal to the pleasures of form. Through her work, she is always searching for spaces of infinite wonder and possibility.
Narshai’s work has been exhibited on the fringe in Cape Town and Helsinki. Her short film "Laundry Man" featured in exhibitions across South Africa and in the New York Lift-Off Film Festival. Narshai graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Rhodes University.
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Narshai gently navigates a diasporic identity that is sensitive to an ever-changing environment. Concerned with the versatility and diversity of the self, she has developed a broad visual vocabulary that remains fluid and adaptive––producing both modern abstractions and figurations. Her explorations of colour and shape intend to find harmony and balance for emotional aesthetics that appeal to the pleasures of form. Through her work, she is always searching for spaces of infinite wonder and possibility.
Narshai’s work has been exhibited on the fringe in Cape Town and Helsinki. Her short film "Laundry Man" featured in exhibitions across South Africa and in the New York Lift-Off Film Festival. Narshai graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Rhodes University.