“Being a designer and maker helped me find my artistic language and my purpose.”

Shohini Gupta

Visual Artist, Designer and Workshop Mentor

Her Story
Shohini Gupta is an independent artist and workshop mentor who transforms discarded fabric, scrap metal, paper, and found objects into wearable art, soft sculptures, textiles, installations, drawings, paintings, and murals. Basically, if it’s been tossed aside, she’ll probably turn it into something worth keeping.

She studied Fine Arts at Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, specializing in printmaking, and dived straight into full-time art after graduation — paintings, installations, performance art, the works. Later, she taught herself graphic and web design because why stop at one creative obsession when you can collect them all?
 
In 2012, she launched her handcrafted jewellery line, SHOHINI, and has been running her handmade enterprise on and off the internet ever since. Her jewellery-making techniques eventually spilled over into larger textile works — quilts, tapestries, and artworks made entirely from upcycled materials. The environment became the thread tying everything together as she built what she hoped would be a truly sustainable creative practice.
 
But Shohini couldn’t shake the feeling that crafting should be more than just making beautiful objects. It could be a tool for connection, for slowing down, for building community in a world that never stops moving. Inspired by the way women used to gather with their needlework and knitting — making things and making real connections — she started the Slow Stitch Community. Today, she runs successful craft workshops at her studio and beyond, proving that sometimes the best way to change the world is one stitch at a time.

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