Kali Arulpragasam

Kali Arulpragasam is a jewellery designer based in London, UK. She is the founder and creative director of the jewellery company and label "Super Fertile," founded in 2006.

uper Fertile

Arulpragasam's designs with Super Fertile are politically conscious in form, influenced by social realism, the environment and nations torn at war.cite web |author=Patel, Priya|title=Kali's Jewel Box| url= http://niralimagazine.com/2008/01/kalis-jewel-box/print/| work = Nirali magazine| date=2008 | accessdate=2008-07-09] Her latest line "Tourism (Terrorism affects Tourism)" features signature oversized silver- and gold-plated necklaces, shaped like murals, using countries such as Haiti, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Sudan as themes. This collection features a series of breastplate necklaces that hang below the navel and celebrate positive aspects of war-torn nations. Iraq's shows fruit, a mosque, and a tower at Samarra, Sudan's shows cows and fishermen, Sri Lanka's depicts a boat, palm trees and a peacock, whilst Israel's shows horses, temples and laughing men and women.cite web |author=Quinlan, Adriane|title=Body Politic| url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501080310-1717914,00.html| work = TIME| date=2008-02-28 | accessdate=2008-07-09]

The ornaments, hand-cut, were made "to be huge, so you could see them across the room." She says “There’s more to these countries than guys with guns standing in rubble... What are the plants like? What music are the kids listening to? That’s what I wanted to show.”cite web |title=Peace of a wearable kind| url= http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/25/fashion/20080127_PULSE_SLIDESHOW_3.html| work = New York Times – Fashion & Style| date=2008 | accessdate=2008-07-09] Arulpragasam plans to donate each respective necklace design to museums of their corresponding countries.cite web |author=Durbin, Jonathan|title=Stolen Beauty- Kali Arulpragasam captures countries in silver and gold with her new jewellery line Super Fertile | url= http://www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=2549
work = Paper| date=2008 | accessdate=2008-04-01] Another line, "Endangered Species" features a collection of three piece rings resembling knuckle dusters that feature the heads of rhinos, stags and bulls.

Lines

*Jungle Birds (Spring 2006)
*The BubbleBoy (Summer 2006)
*Rich Girl Vs. Poor Girl (Summer 2007)
*Endangered Species (Summer 2007)
*Tourism (Summer 2008)

Personal life

Arulpragasam is a British Tamilian of Sri Lankan descent. She is the eldest daughter of Arul Pragasam and Kala Arulpragasam and is the older sister of artist Mathangi Arulpragasam and Sugu Arulpragasam. The family fled the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1980s. She worked at advertising firms in New York and Los Angeles in the US, before moving to London, where she was raised, in 2006. She works from her studio based in the East End of London.

References

External links

* [http://www.superfertile.com/ Super Fertile]
*MySpace-music|myspacekali|SUPERFERTILE
* [http://www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=2549 Kali Arulpragasam captures countries in silver and gold with her new jewellery line Super Fertile - Paper Magazine]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/25/fashion/20080127_PULSE_SLIDESHOW_3.html Peace of a wearable kind - New York Times Fashion and Style]
* [http://niralimagazine.com/2008/01/kalis-jewel-box/print/ Kali's Jewel Box - Nirali Magazine]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501080310-1717914,00.html Body Politic - Time Magazine]