Bio

Manju Lodha is a Winnipeg-based artist.  She is a painter and has recently branched into video making, photography and singing. She comes from Rajasthan India, and migrated to Canada in 1971.  In her art practice one can see her Indian heritage as well as influences of her new home, Canada.

Works

Empowering Rural Women of Rajasthan

  • 2010
  • Manju Lodha

Empowering Rural Women of Rajasthan is a video that shows Lodha’s colourful heritage, the music she learned in her childhood and her love for the women of Rajasthan. She focusses her attention on a group of women engaged in digging a community ditch, and shows the strong bonds that bind these women through the sharing of food and song. Empowering Rural Women of Rajasthan was produced as part of the New Artist in New Media Fund program at Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

Empowering Rural Women of Rajasthan

The Goddess of Humanity

  • 2010
  • Manju Lodha

The Goddess of Humanity is an imaginary deity safeguarding human rights.

The Goddess of Humanity

Women's Hands

  • 2010
  • Manju Lodha

Women’s Hands is a video about honouring the contributions of women in not only India, but around the world.

Women’s Hands