Neena Mand: Primordial Pulse

Neena Mand is an Australian and British artist of Indian heritage based in Sydney, working from her Hawkesbury River studio. Over the past five years, she has transitioned from architectural academia to a dedicated contemporary art practice.

As an academic Neena taught architecture at the University of Newcastle and Sydney University, where she was awarded her PhD, she currently continues to teach at Sydney University. 

Neena’s personal and professional development has been facilitated through international travel and working with eminent architects and practices. In India working with S.D Sharma who worked with Le Corbusier, the designer of the new city of Chandigarh. In London she worked with BDP and continued her career development travelling to Japan working with Kisho Kurokawa and Associates, the key exponent of the Metabolist movement and then in Malaysia working with Hijjas Kasturi, the pioneering figure of Malaysian modern architecture. She has worked on various scales of architectural projects ranging from multi-million-dollar urban developments to individual houses and community projects.

Neena has developed an aesthetic and conceptual framework called Dhvanic Abstraction. Rooted in the ancient Indian aesthetic principle of dhvani—the art of suggestion—extending this idea into a visual and spatial practice that engages abstraction, architecture, and cross-cultural philosophy. . Each artwork is uniquely conceptualized and underpinned by years of research, intellectual analysis and abstract interpretations.