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Following a 2006 Commonwealth Foundation residency program at the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, Dhananjay Singh encountered the skilful use of bronze by his co-students and lecturers. This inspired him to experiment with the same technique, and eventually led to the establishment of his own unique sculptural practice involving building forms and figures out of intricately twined bronze and copper... Following a 2006 Commonwealth Foundation residency program at the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, Dhananjay Singh encountered the skilful use of bronze by his co-students and lecturers. This inspired him to experiment with the same technique, and eventually led to the establishment of his own unique sculptural practice involving building forms and figures out of intricately twined bronze and copper wires.

Explaining the relationship between nature and the human body that comes to the fore in his large twisted wire sculptures, the artist notes, "I observe in nature an unending lifecycle in which matters keep transforming into other forms and appearances in the process of birth and rebirth, growth and decay. Man is also a part of nature, and before him this drama spreads .The human body is an observer or is observed as an embodiment of itself without any specific features, representing the universal with subjective interpretation about life and its stages… The human body fascinates me because we can associate our emotion and compare it with other forms of life. When looking inside of the complex mechanism it surprises me when I compare different organs with different parts of a tree having the same function with different feeling in form. For instance nerves in tree leaf or fibers become very soft structure in human body…" (adapted from an interview with the artist, Saffronart, January 2009).

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