Clyde D’Mello is a Bangalore based visual artist and an educator in arts pedagogy, teaching at various prestigious institutes in the city.
He did his Bachelors in Fine Arts in Art History from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath (2009) and later obtained a Masters degree in
Art History from Kala Bhavan Santiniketan in 2012. In 2017. He was part of a residency in Japan where he was influenced by the use
of Sumi ink and was inspired to use in his drawings.
He is also a founding member and curator of the HAND art collective, a Zine collective made for students and artists to harness their
creative abilities, by exploring different mediums and themes in the world of zines.
Clyde’s work reflects his personal archive of experiences-lived and imagined, which is combined with references from historical
images to create new meaning, evoking a sense of wizardry, re-capturing imagery forgotten with time.
He frequently refers to classical texts in conjunction with the visual art, resulting in multi-layered works that invite viewers to engage
in a dialogue with the artwork. Thus creating an amalgamation between art and literature- drawing inspiration from Greek mythology,
Biblical tales, Medieval, Gothic literature, existentialist ideologies, to create a landscape of fantasy and reality with symbolic images.
His works often depict the fleeting nature of life, layering and manipulating images to create dense obfuscation and uncertainty,
reflecting the complexity of our times.
His artworks often reflect his desires, dreams, sexuality, paranoia, and suffering, conveyed through surrealism and
expressionism.Through his drawings, he attempts to understand how to navigate the confusion and chaos that exist in the world
around us.