Sreeja Pallam

Born

Education
She completed her diploma in Painting .
Exhibition
Sreeja Pallam completed her diploma in Painting and has shown in both solo and group shows in state Lalit Kala Academy of Kerala, Museum Auditorium, Thiruvananthapuram, and Nasik, etc.
Sreeja is a passionate feminist and deeply concerned about the state of the global environment. To her the dynamics of male-female relationship, the patriarchal hierarchy, social and domestic domination of women, and the unequal distribution of financial resources is deeply disturbing and deeply connected with the sad state of the earth today apart from the obvious forward movement in the social status of the Indian woman . The soil, for her, is the skin of the earth, and it’s being mercilessly and greedily stripped away by the wealth hungry men, for whom earth is just another resource to be exploited for progress of the self. Global warming, gradually rising oceans, floods, forest fires and temperatures have nothing to do with their business of mining the earth for minerals, metals and oil. Unlike a woman he cannot see the tiny seedlings and creatures growing in the earth, or the already existing vegetation that provides food shade and reduces the carbon dioxide in the air. For Sreeja, these are a woman’s premise and only a womancan feel the travails of mother earth.
Sreeja paints this very deep concern in her work; the woman appears as a force that embraces the pain of the earth within herself, as in “Dirge of the Soil”; the woman as a metaphor for earth mother from whom grows the tender beings of the soil personified by a new born child (“Biorhythms”). Her statements are metaphorical, but bold and in your face, enhanced by her expressionistic figures, bold contrasting colours, and dense compositions, that are somehow reminiscent of her native Kerala. Therein lie the truth of Sreeja’s concerns for her slowly dying beloved Mother Earth.