New Delhi: Renowned artist Sudarsan Pattnaik will participate in an international sand art championship in Russia later this month.
Pattnaik will be representing India in the contest where he will make sand art "Mahatma Gandhi sculpture for non-violence and peace".
Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a sand sculpture on terrorist attack in Brussels, at Puri beach of Odisha. (Photo: PTI)
The sand sculpture competition will be held from April 21 to 27 at Kolomenskoye, Moscow, Pattnaik said.
I have selected for Moscow sand art championship 2016.I will create #MahatmaGandhi sculpture for Nonviolence n peace pic.twitter.com/szuUwsGpRJ
— Sudarsan Pattnaik (@sudarsansand) April 10, 2016
Including India, 20 top sculptors have been selected from different countries for the championship, he said.
Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a sand sculpture for the upcoming T20 World Cup, at Marina Beach in Chennai. (Photo: PTI)
"I am very happy to be selected for this championship. I will try to show through my sculpture how Gandhiji's non-violence theory will bring global peace," Pattnaik said.
He has participated in more than 50 international sand sculpture championships across the world and won many awards for the country.
Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created a sand sculpture on the occasion of Odisha Day with a Happy Utkal Divas message at the Bhubaneswar airport. (Photo: PTI)
He has also got the fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in 2014. Pattnaik runs a sand art school at Puri beach in Odisha.
