Keepa Maskey

Keepa Maskey / Nepal b.1973 / Recital of a Dressmaker 2024 / Cotton, cheesecloth, organza, cotton quilting thread, silk embroidery thread, silk paint / 152.40 x 103.63 cm / Purchased 2024. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Keepa Maskey / View full image

Keepa Maskey / Image courtesy: The artist
Keepa Maskey’s artistic journey delves into the intricate relationship between body, identity, soil and compost. Breaking away from cultural constraints, she explores diverse perspectives through experiential works that challenge conventional norms. Her paternal grandmother, Nani Maiya Maskey, played a pivotal role in this exploration, prompting her to question the intricate complexities within the existing caste system and how it shaped her identity.
At present, it is through writing, drawing, stitching, filming, deconstructing, collecting, colouring, listening, moving and performing that she connects and imagines a notion of community armoured and guided by ancestral knowledge.