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I'm hIRALAL kARMAKAR
Artist (President awardee)
I am a sculptor by profession. I work with woods, stone and other material, by which I won multiple awards, both national and state level and in 1995 I received a national award from the President Mr. Sankar Dayal Sharma.
Journey
My journey started from my childhood. I was inspired from some art pieces created by my late grandfather, Sri. Srinantiram Karmakar. During my childhood, along with my studies I was interested into art, at a very young age I got a great opportunity to learn stone craving art from Sri Sahadev Karmakar, an artist from Susunia.
Growing Art
Slowly my journey as an artist started. In a very short period of time I got introduced to few government institutions such as DIC and Bardhhaman regional centre, where I got opportunities for many exhibitions and contests. In this way slowly my work was getting renounced in the outer world, along with that I received my first state level award on 1979, after that I got awards many times through many mediums.
Achievements
In 1995, I received rastrapati award ‘Virat Swarup’ for carving art by the honourable president Mr. Sankar Dayal. In the same year I got invitation to meet the prime minister P.V Narasima Rao. In the year 1996 at Surajkund exhibition I was given the title of ‘kolmoni’ from the Governor.
Expanding
In the recent time in 2019 I received ‘excellence’ award from the hands of Smt. Smriti Zuban Irani, an artist in MSME. Recently a lot of families from my village and the other villages have been inspired by the art and joined the work. The family members of mine have also joined the work, my wife helps me a lot.
Social Activity
My son and daughter are also connected to this art, in 2008-09 my son, Malay karmakar won state level award. And many other people are awared for their art work taught by me. We are working on social work and highlighting new talents
Spceal Products
Here are my some special products which achived national level awards
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Products of Hiralal and His Institution Bankura Traditoional Art Center
