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Mr. Sudarshan Patnaik and Sand Art:-

Mr. Sudarshan Patnaik was born in the coastal town of Puri, Orissa. Being inspired by the voice of his inner sole he started visiting the sea beach at Puri every day right from my childhood. Slowly he started carving out different faces of gods and goddesses in sand with his imagination and creativity. Initially the forms were not mature as he had no Guru because sand art is not considered as a professional form of art in India. Despite these limitations he pursued in his endeavour as he considered the creativity in him is God gifted ability. He took up the challenge to popularize sand art as a professional art form and started exhibiting sand art at various places in India.

Mr. Sudarshan Patnaik's ultimate objective is to create awareness and enthusiasm among the people and make it popular professional art form among the people for which he is traveling various places in the country and demonstrating this art form by holding workshops and training. Mr. Sudarshan Patnaik has established the "Golden Sand ArtInstitute" which is first of it's nature in India.

GOLDEN SAND ART INSTITUTE :-

A dream to realize, a strong zeal in the heart and a dedicated Art lover, Sudarsan not only mastered the art, but was keen to propagate the same to others. The determination of this man, support and a consorted effort from his friends in Puri, culminated in the formation of “Golden Sand Art Institute” in the year 1994. The institute is an open-air institute with no boundaries and limitations, with sands below the feet and the sky above the head, the institute is located in the seashore that spans between Hotel May Fair Beach Resort and the Panthanivas in Puri.

Aims of the Institute:

• Propagate the art among the general public. • Impart training on Sand Art to art lovers. • Development and Popularisation of this unique art form. • Develop Sandart as a professional carrier with support from its fine art wing. The institute that started with only two students and has grown to a 35 member team now. The institute organise an annual "Sandart Exhibition" in the month of December. Sudarsan recalls the first exhibition of the institute "there were only two students and they were new, we organised the publicity with help of my local friends who prepared the banners and posters. Then they carved some magnificent arts on the sand, many of which were done by me alone just to show the visitors that we have many participants". But all these pains were forgotten once the crowd started pouring in and the art form was appreciated by all. There was a huge tourist gathering also.

In search of talents among children the institute organizes various programs including a sand castle competition among local and tourist children, painting competitions and cartoon competition. Besides it organizes some special exhibitions on the occasion of Dashara, New years etc. The Institute also performs demonstration exhibition of Sand sculptures every year during the occasion of Puri Beach Festival, and Pallishree Mela during the Car Festival (Ratha Yatra) of Lord Jagannatha. Golden Sand Art Institute the brain child of Mr. Pattnaik is able to produce a band of well trained Sand Sculptors within a short period. Even some of them master themselves in this unique art form.

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS & ACHIEVMENTS:-

1 UNITED KINGDOM: Exhibited during the World Travel Market’1998 at Earls Court, LONDON with support of Govt. Of India Tourist Office, London. 2 UNITED KINGDOM: Exhibited during the World Cup Cricket-1999 held at Edgbaston, United Kingdom. 3 FRANCE: World Sand Sculpturing Championship at France 2000 representing India. 4 CHINA: International Sand Sculpturing Championship 2000 at China representing India. 5 UNITED KINGDOM: International Sand Sculpturing Festival 2000 at Glasgow representing India. 6 SINGAPORE: Participated in SANTOSA SANDSTATION 2001 3rd June “SPLENDOURS OF GOLDEN ASIA” at Singapore representing India. 7 DENMARK: International Sand’s Sculpture’s Festival 2001 Blokhus on 25th June representing India. 8 ITALY: 3rd Prize in World’s Master Sand Sculpture’s Championship 2001 on 16th July at Italy. 9 NETHERLANDS: Singles International Sand Sculpting Competition at Scheveningen, Holland representing India in 6th May 2001 & 6th May 2002. 10 JAPAN: Champion Medal in “29th International Snow Statue Contest - 2002” at Sapporo, Japan. 11 BELGIUM: Sand Sculpture Festival Blankenberge 2002. at Belgium in June. 12 NETHERLANDS: The Dutch Sand Sculpture Festival Thorn 2002-2003 at Holland in July. 13 CHINA: The 1st China Ningxia Sand Lake International Sand Sculpture Event- 2002, Aug 3 to 10, representative India. 14 CHINA: The 3rd Luilang Colour Sand Festival Demonstration prize at China 2003. 15 SPAIN: 2nd Prize in International Sand Sculpture Championship at Valadoli, Spain 2003. 16 GERMANY: 3rd Prize at Berlin International Sand Sculpture Championship at Germany 2003. 17 CHINA: 4th Prize at China International Sand Sculpture Competition 2003. 18 UAE: Sand Sculpture Demonstration at Muscat Festival 2004 at Oman. 19 GERMANY: Participated at Sand World Festival at Travemunda at Germany 2003-04. 20 GERMANY: Public Prize at 2nd Berlin Sand Station Competition 2004. 21 AUSTRALIA: Participated at Sand Sculpting Australia 2004 at Melbourne. 22 USA: Participated in Houston international Festival-2005 at Houston Texas. Taj mahal recreated in sand 23 GERMANY: 1st Prize at 3rd Berlin International Sand Sculpture Competition 2005. 24 GERMANY: Sudarshan Patnaik won World Sand Art competition at Berlin in 2008.
 * The Competitions/Festivals sited above indicate his participation on behalf of the country and recipient of awards/honours.

SPECIAL ACHIEVMENTS :-

25 Providing training to artists through open air Golden Sand Art Institute at Puri beach, an institute which I started in 1994 with a view to make these students learn and develop sand art as a professional art form. Students from India and abroad are enrolled for projects, regular and short term courses. My objective is to include sand art as a regular curriculum in the schools of art and culture.

26 Published a book regarding SAND ART.

27 Conducted training and workshops and demonstrated the art form in different Fair and Festivals around the country to promote and popularize this art form in our country.

28 He took current national and international events on social problems such as World Peace, Wild Life, Terrorism, HIV-AIDS, World Sports and problems of similar nature and depicted it through the form of SAND ART to create public awareness which is covered by National and International Media like BBC, CNN, ABC, Doordarshan, Discovery, National Geography and others.

29 Limca Book felicitated internationally acclaimed Sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik during the release of 20th edition of Limca Book of Records on Tuesday at New Delhi. Patnaik was felicitated for being among the 20 People of the Year.

Few of the supporting links are below.

http://www.sudarsansand.com/sudarsan.html http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowOriyaOrbit.asp?id=11759 http://www.orissatimes.net/2008/02/amazing-sand-art-by-sudarshan-patnaik.html http://www.desicolours.com/splendid-sand-art-by-sudarshan-patnaik/24/02/2009 http://www.odishatoday.com/orissa/Sudarshan_Pattnaik_global_warming_sculpture_310508683457905.html http://www.india-server.com/news/indian-sand-sculptor-wins-top-honors-at-1898.html