{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1307268"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1307268/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2016HY8983/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2016HY8983/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"low","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2016HY8983","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1307268","accessionNumber":"IS.7-2017","objectType":"Textile","titles":[{"title":"Mountains","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"Khatri Khalid Amin is an artist/ajrakh printer living in Ajrakhpur, in  the city of Bhuj, in the Kutch region of Gujarat. He is a graduate of  the Kala Raksha Vidhalaya, a design school run by Judy Frater  which provides artisans with an education programme that helps  them design and make products that suit growing urban markets.  The programme encourages artisans to take charge of their own  creativity and explore their traditions in a contemporary context.  As design education in colleges and universities is not  accessible to these artisans, it is a unique programme which was  initially taught at the Kala Raksha Vidhalaya (KRV) and is now  taught at the Somaiya Kala Vidya. Graduates of the school call  themselves artisan-designers/artists. \r\n\r\nKhalid Amin comes from a family of ajrakh printers. After  attending the KRV he was confident in exploring the possibilities  of printing. He has developed a more free, expressive style which  has gained him a reputation as an innovative artist resulting in a  solo show of his work at the Artisans Gallery, Mumbai in 2010.  He has since taken part in other exhibitions including ‘Cotton  Exchange’ an exchange between artists in Ahmedabad and  Manchester.\r\n\nThis piece of textile art was made specially for the V&A. ","physicalDescription":"The artist has created a black and white landscape of 'patterned' mountains set within a patterned frame. The insides of the mountains have a range of random patterns including palm trees and flowers. The entiire textile has been block-printed and resist dyed","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Khatri , Khalid Amin","id":"AUTH334221"},"association":{"text":"Artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"Khatri Khalid Amin is an artist/ajrakh printer living in Ajrakhpur, in  the city of Bhuj, in the Kutch region of Gujarat. He is a graduate of  the Kala Raksha Vidhalaya, a design school run by Judy Frater  which provides artisans with an education programme that helps  them design and make products that suit growing urban markets.  The programme encourages artisans to take charge of their own  creativity and explore their traditions in a contemporary context.  As design education in colleges and universities is not  accessible to these artisans, it is a unique programme which was  initially taught at the Kala Raksha Vidhalaya (KRV) and is now  taught at the Somaiya Kala Vidya. Graduates of the school call  themselves artisan-designers/artists. \r\n\r\nKhalid Amin comes from a family of ajrakh printers. After  attending the KRV he was confident in exploring the possibilities  of printing. He has developed a more free, expressive style which  has gained him a reputation as an innovative artist resulting in a  solo show of his work at the Artisans Gallery, Mumbai in 2010.  He has since taken part in other exhibitions including ‘Cotton  Exchange’ an exchange between artists in Ahmedabad and  Manchester.\r\n"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"cotton (textile)","id":"AAT14067"}],"techniques":[{"text":"block-printed and resist dyed","id":"THES258233"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"block-printed and resist dyed cotton","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2016HY8983"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES312600"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"textile","id":"AAT14063"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Bhuj","id":"x41204"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2014","earliest":"2014-01-01","latest":"2014-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"204","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"121","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This piece was made specially for the V&A and was bought directly from the artist.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Textile art entitled 'Mountains' by Khatri Khalid Amin, Bhuj, Kutch, Gurarat, 2014","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"The artist made this piece specially for the V&A. During my visit to the region I had said that I wanted a piece by him. He made this in one day so that I could collect it before I left the area. I did not specify what imagery I wanted, he was left to decided this for himself. ","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IS.7-2015"],"accessionNumberNum":"7","accessionNumberPrefix":"IS","accessionYear":2015,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2015-02-12","availableToBook":true}}