Himalayan Cultural Space

GANGRI
MELONG

Bringing inherited skill and ways of seeing into contemporary life.

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Green TaraGANGRI MELONG COLLECTION

For a lonely world, a little Himalayan warmth.

01 / COLLECTION

Selected Works

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02 / CRAFT & STORIES

Craft & Stories

A thangka begins with cloth and composition.

Measured drawing, line, colour and detail gradually bring the image into form.

Behind each work are time, skill and accumulated experience.

An artist working on a large painting in the Puchung atelier
Puchung atelier, Shigatse
A large thangka in progress at the Robu atelier

01 / READING THE WORK

Reading a Thangka

From the whole composition to every line.

A closer way of looking at composition, figures, colour, line and detail—following the visual clues through which a work gradually opens.

Artwork readings↗
An artist examining a framed work in the Puchung atelier

02 / ARTISTS & ATELIERS

Artists & Ateliers

From the work to the people and places behind it.

Artists, their working lives and the ateliers where thangka continues to be painted today.

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Pigments and tools in use at the Puchung atelier

03 / MATERIALS & MAKING

Materials & Making

Cloth, pigments and tools reveal how a thangka is made.

An account of the working process, from drawing and colour to line and close detail, grounded in the realities of the atelier.

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Natural light and painting frames in the Robu atelier
Beyond the finished work is the process by which it is made.

03 / ABOUT GANGRI MELONG

From the work to the craft and people behind it.

GANGRI MELONG is a cultural space connecting Himalayan art with the contemporary world through thangka.

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04 / EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitions in preparation

Exhibitions, talks and public programmes will appear here after dates and venues are confirmed.

Exhibitions↗

05 / STORIES

Notes from works and ateliers

Stories begin with close looking: at pigments, measured forms and the people who sustain each painting tradition.

Stories↗

06 / CONTACT & UPDATES

Works, exhibitions and cultural projects.

Exhibitions, new works and cultural programmes.

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