Svabhu Kohli

[from author's website]
Svabhu Kohli is an independent visual storyteller. Deeply inspired by the natural world and its mechanics, their work lives and breathes on the intersection of Magical Realism, Art, Science and Conservation.

Kohli's art-practice finds its roots in curiosities for indigenous, political, and scientific narratives that shape our collective / personal imagination and identity of the natural world. Their work involves researching and studying complex ecosystems, learning from native communities, shamans and healers, naturalists and scientists and observers of our surroundings, layering diverse perspectives of memory, knowledge, myth and fantasy into their visual language of our rapidly changing planet and its relationship to our bodies, minds and landscapes.

Their work finds form in large scale murals, illustration, design, zines, sculpture, installation, photography and film. Kohli's illustrations have been featured in children's book publications by Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Levine Querido Publication and Harper Collins. Their research based works have been featured in various exhibitions and platforms such as Meta Open Arts, Google Arts & Culture, London Edition, Serendipity Arts Festival, Sussex Contemporary Illustrations & Printmakers, Google Doodle, St+Art India Foundation, Current Conservation, Sanctuary Asia, PangeaSeed Foundation, Mongabay India, Hudson Valley Seed Library and Technology for Wildlife among others.

Kohli is also part of the Art Direction/Communication teams at Amche Mollem, a citizen movement actively engaging in art and science collaborations to encourage community participation, learning tools, self-organisation and policy change to protect Goa's largest forest region, part of the eco-sensitive and biodiversity hotspot of the Western Ghats in India.