An exhibition of paintings of Gond community painter Dhanaiya Bai Shyam 'Shalaka 24' is being displayed in 'Likhandra Gallery' of Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum.
In the exhibition gallery of Likhandra library, the 'Shalaka-24 painting exhibition' will continue from April 3 to 30.
The paintings displayed in the painting exhibition are for sale which can be purchased from the painter. Painter Dhanaiya Bai Shyam was born in the year 1982 in village Patangarh of district Dindori tehsil of Madhya Pradesh. Her childhood was spent in the village itself and due to the financial condition of the parents being very weak and not having much resources in the family, the childhood time was spent in a lot of poverty.
When the upbringing of children became difficult for the parents, Dhanaiya along with her siblings started working as a laborer to help the parents. Like other brothers and sisters, Dhanaiya could not take education after class III due to very difficult times and poor financial condition. But she started portraying her caste myths and other stories in her own understanding and has done the work of engraving childhood memory and Gond myths.