“LIVE:WELL: (INTRODUCTION)

This unique and important film transforms artist Sunil Pawar’s dynamic paintings into animated works that reflect his journey of dealing with rare epilepsy, portraying both the challenges of temporal “blips” and his enduring strength through striking compositions, bold color, and dynamic film-painting contrasts.

A person in a workshop working on a large print or fabric, surrounded by art supplies, artwork on the walls, and storage containers.

Two people stand in snowy mountainous terrain, preparing for skiing, with ski equipment and backpacks nearby, under a clear blue sky.

A man with gray hair and glasses working in a music studio, using a computer with a digital audio workstation and a MIDI keyboard for music production.

‘LIVE:WELL’ & INTRODUCTION FILM

For the majority of his life, London based artist and DJ Sunil Pawar’s self imposed remit has been to create positive depictions of power and strength, exploring the parallels and similarities between classic sporting pose with themes of everyday battles and survival. The battles that we all face on a daily basis.

Sunil’s life experience is resonant throughout this latest body of work which provides a window into the artist’s challenges. At the age of Nineteen, Sunil was diagnosed with a rare form of Epilepsy, two different strains in each side of his brain - to the amazement of his doctors, he still succeeds in living a full and varied life to this day.

This sense of overcoming adversity brings a heightened tenacity to these vivid portrayals of strength and power, alongside his considered sense of composition and use of striking colour palette.

‘LIVE:WELL’ is an animated transformation of Pawar’s canvas artworks. A selection of five of his paintings, ‘Zeus, Troop, Odin, Now’* and ‘Warrior Charge’ have been converted into moving image.

A symptom of Pawar’s condition, is the experiencing of momentary lapses or ‘blips’, where the artist

undergoes a loss of the concept of time and space.

The ‘freefalling’ nature of this sporadic loss of neural anchors is portrayed in the film by camera footage shot in the Făgăraș Mountains in Romania.

Pawar subsequently paints in the footage digitally into scans of his paintings creating a dynamic spacial contrast to the film.

A colorful abstract painting of a person's face wearing sunglasses, with a pink and peach hairstyle, yellow face, and green background.

Street art painting of a person's face with closed eyes, wearing an orange hood, depicted in bold black, white, and blue colors.

SUNIL PAWAR

Sunil Pawar is a London-based artist whose practice explores identity, resilience, and cultural memory through painting and research-led processes. His work holds a sense of endurance, suggesting bodies and minds navigating constraint, momentum, and survival.

Informed by a foundation in DJ and sound system culture, sport, and street aesthetics, Pawar’s visual language sits between bold traditional portraiture and vibrant abstraction. Considered marks, symbols, and forms behave like signals, transmitted, interrupted, and received. He is renowned for his exploration of the nuanced parallels between historical sporting pose and the timeless themes of battle, survival and resilience.

His multidisciplinary practice moves fluidly between institutional contexts, galleries, and public-facing collaborations, bridging art, design, fashion, audio and future-facing technologies.

Pawar has exhibited internationally, including The Tate Modern, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Stern Pissarro Gallery, and Somerset House.

Artworks in the permanent collection of the Wellcome Collection, London.

At the age of fifteen, Pawar walked into the North London studios of Soul II Soul with a school bag full of paintings and sold them all. This early experience set the blueprint for his practice. Today, his work continues to fuse disciplines while maintaining authenticity, craft, and cultural relevance.

Abstract street art depicting a person's face with sunglasses, outlined in orange, with a light blue background and a collage of abstract elements.

Street art portrait of a person with multicolored, layered abstract features, including red lips, a red nose, and glasses, on a painted wall surface with various paint splashes and textures.

ARTWORK: SUNIL PAWAR

UNIT AERIAL CAMERAMAN: LODAY GONPO

SOUNDTRACK : PAUL HASLINGER

SPECIAL THANKS TO: PAOLO BUGLIARI GOGGIA, PROFESSOR LEY SANDERS, head of the department of clinical & experimental epilepsy at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. London

For further information please contact Kaori at Sunil Pawar Studio HERE

Sunil Pawar Studio. New Wing, Somerset House The Strand London W1