Profile Category: Artist

I Made Sumadiyasa who goes by the name Made was born in Bali 8 February 1971, Made is a young and dynamic Balinese artist whose expressive paintings encompass a universal spirit. His visual language goes beyond form and illusion, creating intense levels of emotion. He focuses on movement and color to bring out the spiritual essence of his subject.

For about 25 years he has been working in different fields of art as he is as much as talented in visual and performance art. His works are mainly inspired by the philosophy of life in Balinese-Hindu perspective called Trimurti, in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified by the forms of Brahma the creator, Visnu the maintainer or preserver, and Siva the destroyer or transformer.

I Wayan Wirawan is one of Bali’s leading contemporary artists, primarily a painter who initially trained in the Batuan style of painting. Aside from painting, Wirawan also works in carving, sculpture and installation.

In his more recent series of paintings Pande uses a semi-abstract style to depict figures whose gestures communicate a sense of both vulnerability and protectiveness.

In the recent years, Suwidiarta's works are full with mockery and irony on people's life, with a shifting to spiritual issues.