Abir's Annual Show
First Take 2022

FIRST TAKE 2022 is about celebrating works of young artists. Curated from across India, the works will be exhibited . This is ABIR’s big initiative to provide a platform and showcase the art of the generation next.
If you are a young artist and believe in your work, this is meant for you. Out of scores of entries, about 100 works would be picked by the eminent jury from India. The jury will select the best out of the lot and ten awards in total are awarded.
The show will also bring art lovers together, with dialogues, discussions and demonstrations with senior artists, art historians, art critics, curators and investors.
Eminent Jury Members of First Take 2022

Manjunath Kamath
Manjunath Kamath pursued Bachelor in Fine Arts in Mysore ...


Jayaram Poduval
Jayaram Poduval is an Asst. Professor at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda

Jayaram Poduval is an Asst. Professor at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. He has pursued intensive research in
South Asian art and architecture. He has also written on Chalukya, Vijayanagar, Ellora, Kerala, and Christian Art of Kerala and Gujarat Architecture. He teaches Indian Architecture, Renaissance Art, Islamic art, and Contemporary Western art. He is a Fellow of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

Manisha Parekh
Manisha Parekh, born in 1964, pursued her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts

Manisha Parekh, born in 1964, pursued her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts followed by a Master’s of Fine Arts, both from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. She acquired her second Master’s degree from Royal College of Art, London, UK.
She has worked prolifically since and has had major solo and group shows across the country and abroad. Some of the notable honours received by her include The Erasmus Award - Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany, 1993 and Lalit Kala Academy Award in Printmaking 1991.
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G. R. IRANNA
Born in 1970 in Sindgi of Bijapur district in Karnataka


Ramesh Vedhanbatla
V. Ramesh, born in 1958 in Andhra Pradesh, pursued his Bachelor of Fine Arts ...

Eminent Jury Members of First Take 2021

Hartmut Wurster
Hartmut Wurster was born in Germany and studied architecture at the

Hartmut Wurster was born in Germany and studied architecture at the University of Dresden in Germany and at the Aristoteles-University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is also a trained carpenter. Upon joining Maier + Partners, an architecture office in Heidelberg, Germany, he worked on projects on housing, restoration and industrial developments as well as projects that created new concepts of shared living. In 2010, he joined Blocher Partners, a firm for architecture, interior design and visual communication based in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2011 he moved to India to establish the company’s presence in Ahmedabad; he has gone on to lead a wide spectrum of projects. He has a keen interest in sustainability. Another point of interest is contemporary art. He is the founder of ZOCA, the Zone of Contemporary Art, a platform for young and emerging Indian art.

Kristine Michael
Kristine Michael is a ceramic artist, arts educator, researcher and


Rm. Palaniappan
Rm. Palaniappan born 1957, Devakottai, Tamil Nadu, is an alumnus


K. S. Radhakrishnan
K. S. Radhakrishnan was born in Kottayam, Kerala, in 1956. He went to


Vasudevan Akkitham
Vasudevan Akkitham was born at Kumaranallur, Kerala in 1958. He

Eminent Jury Members of First Take 2019

Brinda Miller
Brinda Miller is a celebrated and well- known Fine Artist who


Jayanti Rabadia
Jayanti Rabadia- one of India’s eminent artists whose work is widely

Jayanti Rabadia- one of India’s eminent artists whose work is widely recognized for its depiction of Indian mythology and boldness in different forms of animals, birds along with human figures. Born in 1959, Dhoraji , Gujarat. Jayanti Rabadia did his diploma in painting from Vallabh Vidyanagar and Post Diploma in Graphic Arts and Mural Painting from the Faculty Of Fine Fine Arts MS University, Vadodara, as well as an exchange program to Glasgow School Of Art, Scotland. He has also received many awards and scholarships, some of them are junior fellowship, HRD ministry of culture Government of India, scholarship Urja Trust , Navdeep Award for young artists of outstanding contribution in the field of art, International Biennale of Prints Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. Honourable mention award from National Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi. Gold Medal and Centenary Year Prize Award from Bombay Art Society and many more. He has done numerous mural projects, solo and group exhibitions some of them are at Glasgow Scotland, Baroda, Bombay and Delhi. Jayanti Rabadia is an Associate Professor at the Department of Painting , Faculty Of Fine Arts since 1989.

Subodh Kerkar
Rm. Palaniappan born 1957, Devakottai, Tamil Nadu, is an alumnus


Veer Munshi
Artist/curator born in Srinagar Kashmir, he studied fine arts (painting)


Umang Hutheesing
Umang Hutheesing is the scion of one of the India’s most historical family, he

Eminent Jury Members of First Take 2018

Amit Ambalal
Amit Ambalal (b.1943) lives and works in Ahmedabad, India. He qualified in


Muzaffar Ali
Muzaffar Ali is a filmmaker, fashion designer, poet, artist, music-lover,

Muzaffar Ali is a filmmaker, fashion designer, poet, artist, music-lover, revivalist, and social worker. He belongs to Royal House of Kotwara in India. A painter from childhood, he realized that paintings could express a more intimate form of aesthetics and he was attracted to the medium of collage and sketches. A romantic at heart, he has an acute sensibility towards culture, art and beauty. In some of his collages, he incorporates old postcards and photographs to create a nostalgic effect. He is well known for his creation of Rekha as Umrao Jaan and has directed many documentaries and short films based on Awadh, craft, culture, exploitation of women and Sufism. His interest in craft and fashion clothing motivated him to design clothes and his brand ‘Kotwara’ aptly revives the traditional crafts of Awadh. Born in Kotwara, Muzaffar Ali attended the La Martiniere College in Lucknow. Along with nine one-man shows of sketches and collages, he is also instituted the Rumi Foundation with a vision to promote Sufi music festivals – including the Jahan-e-Khusaru in Delhi. He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2005 and the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award in 2014. A thinker and a dreamer and Muzaffar Ali is Art – Personified!

Ravinder Reddy
Ravinder Reddy – one of India’s eminent artists is recognized for his


Seema Kohli
Seema Kohli is an artist thriving on imagination, ideas, philosophies,


Vijay Bagodi
Vijay Bagodi is one of the celebrated artists whose artwork reflects

Eminent Jury Members of First Take 2017

Johny ML
Johny ML is a writer, translator, art historian, art critic,


Manu Parekh
Born in 1939 in Gujarat, Manu Parekh completed a Diploma in


Madhvi Parekh
Madhvi Parekh, born in 1942 in Sanjaya, a village in Gujarat, is


Walter D’souza
Known primarily for his practice in the print medium- wood

Eminent Jury Members of First Take 2016

Vrindavan Solanki
Vrindavan Solanki is a prolific Indian master artist recognized


Mallika Sarabhai
Mallika Sarabhai is one of India’s leading choreographers and


Karl Antao
Karl Antao -from Mumbai he had studied at Sir J.J. Institute of


Pavan Bakeri
Managing Director - Bakeri Group; Technologist and Arts
