Born in India, Gautam Jhanjee is an Australian-based artist working with large-scale symbolic painting. With a background in architecture, his work reveals a deep sensitivity to structure, rhythm, and spatial intelligence. Engaging archetypal and sacred forms drawn from multiple traditions, he explores the universals that underpin myth, religion, and cosmology in a world marked by civilisational fragmentation.
His paintings often centre on the human figure, situated within geometric or cosmological fields. These figures function as symbolic forms, serving as anchors for larger ideas of order, continuity, and meaning. Star fields, axial structures, and elemental colour are used to situate the figure within a broader cosmological frame.
Jhanjee works at scale and treats painting as an embodied, durational act. Surfaces are built through layered colour, spatial geometry, and restrained figuration. Many works are developed on raw canvas and later stretched or presented to suit their final context. The aim is visual clarity and symbolic coherence in a time of fragmentation.
His work has been exhibited in Australia and India through galleries, site-responsive exhibitions, and spiritual art festivals, and his website and artistic output are archived by the National Library of Australia as part of its Trove / PANDORA web archive.
