Four persons from the state — two artists and two students — will be awarded at an international art festival in Bangladesh later this month.

While Amitava Mukherjee of Ranchi and Uttam Mallick of Jamshedpur are among the Top-10 who will be awarded at the Tune of Art festival, two students from the state capital, Ananya Sarkar and Kritika Vani, have also been adjudged winners in the students’ category of the same event, the third edition of which will be held in Dhaka from October 23 to 26.

“The organisers have informed me about the awards. I have also been invited to the festival for giving a lecture and a demonstration about fine arts,” said Praveen Karmakar, a Ranchi-based artist who has been coordinating with the organisers.

Award-winning painting by renowned sculptor and painter Uttam Mallick Telegraph picture

The festival, organised by Focus Bangladesh, an artists’ group, will be held at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. “Artists from 15 countries participated in the festival by sending their creations through post,” Karmakar said, adding that among the Top-10, five are Indians, four are from the host country and one from Nepal. The names of the other Indian winners are Kalyan Mukhopadhyay, Deepankar Ganguly and Amalesh Majumdar, all from Bengal.

“Thirty-four students from various city schools had also sent their entries for the students’ section which were displayed at the same venue during October 5-9,” Karmakar said.

“I had sent an acrylic on canvas measuring 24 inches by 19 inches that had a composition depicting a rural woman pasting cow dung cakes on a wall,” Mukherjee said about his award-winning painting, adding that he wanted to show how organic fuel was used in this country since time immemorial. Mukherjee is a well-known sculptor and painter who has to his credit many statues created over the past 15 years of his life. Some of these were made of fibreglass, others of metals like bronze, copper and also clay.

Award-winning painting by renowned sculptor and painter Class X student Ananya Sarkar Telegraph picture

“Mine is also an acrylic on canvas measuring 36 inches by 30 inches depicting a fisherman’s life through various aspects of his activities in various shades of blue,” Mallick said.

“My art work is on unity and peace using water colours,” Sarkar, a Class X student of Ranchi’s DAV Public School, Gandhinagar, said.

“I will give a lecture and a demonstration on painting landscape with watercolour,” said Karmakar, who will leave for Dhaka on Monday.

“Since my audience will comprise mostly of students of fine arts, I will focus on the hurdles faced and how to overcome those,” he added.

Karmakar will receive the awards on behalf of the winners as none of them will be present in Dhaka.