ABOUT 

India is an emerging artist working in the drawing and painting medium. Her art is a whole arrangement. Emulating the dynamic push and pull of energy through the articulation of unseen forces in colour. Ideas of expanded consciousness are unearthed in her practice. She reminds us of who we are in this liminal space between the physical world and subconscious mind-scape through a polycemic playground of color, shape, feeling, energy, frequency and vibration.

Biography

India Swinton. Born 2000

BFA - National Art School, 2022

MFA - National Art School, 2024

India is a British–Australian artist based on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers, NSW. She completed a Master of Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney in 2024, where her research focused on the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of transcendence.

Her practice explores painting as a vessel for the unseen and the felt, engaging colour, gesture, and movement to create immersive surfaces that hold space for inner states of being. Influenced by early teachings from her mother to view dreams and the subconscious as gateways into other realms, India continues to integrate spirituality into her work through embodied processes such as meditation, intuitive mark-making, and action painting.

She draws inspiration from artists including Hilma af Klint, Georgiana Houghton, Emma Kunz, Gotthard Graubner, and Wolfgang Laib, whose practices connect abstraction with spiritual enquiry. Through her own paintings and expanded canvas forms, India seeks to create spaces of stillness, reflection, and transcendence that bridge the material and immaterial.