Purva Chawla
Purva Chawla works with diverse, beautiful waste streams such as rigid, thin film, foam and mesh plastic packaging, broken toys, e-waste and fabric offcuts that are mounted to canvas and cloaked in paint. Spazzatura Disegno (Garbage Design), a range of mixed media artworks, is the latest manifestation of her continued work with materials for art and design, and the value within mounting global waste. She is an architect, materials and sustainability consultant, and adjunct lecturer at universities in the US and UK. Her broader practice encompasses MaterialDriven–a materials library and design consultancy, based in Dallas, London and Bilbao–founded by her in 2016.