Melbourne Theatre company

Artist Bio:
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Strokes in Blue is a surrealist enquiring her elusive psyche with unexpected metaphors. 

With her emerging art practice, she explores a world with heightened sensations, a world experienced as if she has metamorphosed into another form. She rejects the limitations of her physical body, and the lack of belonging she feels because of it in foreign and familiar faces and places.
As a migrant who lived her childhood in Mumbai and her adulthood in Melbourne, she observes the world collecting, rejecting, curating prompts that dissuade her from becoming a rebranded white-label product.

Strokes in Blue is the pseudonym of Prachi Lai, 1990. Her emerging practice touches on themes of freedom, belonging, capitalism and our relationship to our environments. As a multidisciplinary artist, she expresses herself in oil paintings, animations and sculptures. She also makes furniture and speculates with wood and metal.


Exhibitions
2025 (coming up): Shelter in another body, Sol Gallery
2024: Summer show, Counihan Gallery
2016: Woodoo stool, Fringe Furniture

Commissions
2020: Mural, Private commission, Melbourne VIC
2019: Mural, Commissioned by Makers Asylum, Mumbai, India
2017: Work Desk, private commission, Melbourne, VIC
2016: Public furniture, Commissioned by Albury city council, Albury, NSW (Collaboration with Joshua Carter)
2016: Public bike racks, Commissioned by Albury city council, Albury, NSW (Collaboration with Joshua Carter)
2015: Public art, Commission, Abbotsford Convent, VIC (Collaboration with Matthew Butler)

Publications
2015: Woodoo stool, Furniture in the fringe, Open journal, archives 2015:
Woodoo stool, Artichoke magazine, page 14

Experience (relevant)
2016- 2025: Designing built-environment and digital experiences for universities, pedagogical spaces, SaaS platforms and apps. 
Companies include Arup, Accenture Song and KPMG.
2015: Industrial Designer for Omnitech Playgrounds designing CAD models and
renders of public playgrounds responding to tenders.
2013- 2014: Furniture designer creating concepts, CAD drawings, and renders
ready for fabrication.

Education
2012: Bachelor of Industrial Design, Swinburne University of Technology

2025 (coming up): Shelter in another body, Sol Gallery
​(oil series)

2015: Public art, Commission, Abbotsford Convent, VIC

2017: Work Desk, private commission, Melbourne, VIC

2016: Public furniture, Commissioned by Albury city council, Albury, NSW
2016: Public bike racks, Commissioned by Albury city council, Albury, NSW
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 2019: Mural, Commissioned by Makers Asylum, Mumbai, India

Paintings (watercolour)- The one to the right is based on greed.

Digital illustrations and animations. See full animation here

2016: Woodoo stool, Fringe Furniture with a soundscape created to capture the process.
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