Saruha Kilaru is a Delhi-based artist and MA Print graduate from the Royal College of Art, whose practice explores the psychological and environmental influence of colour. Working across printmaking and material-based processes, she has exhibited in India and London, including Artbuzz, Woolwich Print Fair, and Southwark Park, and was awarded the High Prize Textiles and Travers Smith awards in 2022. She has also worked with EFA Blackburn, New York, and recently founded Calhi Studios in Delhi.
A synesthetic approach underpins Kilaru's practice, where colour becomes a means of perceiving and translating experience. Using layered materials such as glass, fabric, paper, and ceramics, she creates tactile, shifting works that resist fixed form. Through repetition, transparency, and light, her works evolve with their surroundings, drawing on rasa bhava to explore the interplay between colour, emotion, perception, and memory.
Saruha Kilaru | Rasna
Flame worked sculpture inside a glass blown matka | 16 x 16 inches | 2025
Saruha Kilaru | Ratti
Flame worked sculpture inside a glass blown matka | 14 x 14 inches | 2025
Saruha Kilaru | Thorr
Flame worked sculpture inside a glass blown matka | 10 x 10 inches | 2025
Saruha Kilaru | Shataavari
Flame worked sculpture inside a glass blown matka | 14 x 14 inches | 2025
Saruha Kilaru | Khair
Glass frit on glass | Dia 5.90 inches | 2025
Saruha Kilaru | Shataavari
Glass frit on glass | Dia 5.90 inches | 2025
Saruha Kilaru | Thor
Glass frit on glass | Dia 5.90 inches | 2025
Saruha Kilaru | Untitled
Flame worked sculpture inside blown glass | 5 x 3 inches Each | 2025