The Noble Sage Art Collection is a contemporary art gallery in Belsize Park, North London. It was opened by Jana Manuelpillai in 2006.
The gallery specialises exclusively in Indian, Sri Lankan and Pakistani contemporary art and represents over forty artists. The collection includes over 500 artworks, most of which are paintings, sculpture and works on paper from south Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.
Artists shown at the gallery include:
K. M. Adimoolam
V. Anamika
Gogi Saroj Pal
F.N. Souza
Jagath Weerasinghe
April 2006 – Jana Manuelpillai opened The Noble Sage Art Gallery. Drawn primarily from the alumni of the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai, the first exhibition Chennai Excite featured works by seventeen contemporary Chennai artists, many of them residing in the Cholamandal and Padappai Artists Villages. The artists included senior figures of South Indian art, such as K. M. Adimoolam, S. Dhanapal and R. B. Bhaskaran and emergent artists like T. Athiveerapandian, P. Jayakani and Benitha Perciyal.
May 2007 - In The Fore 2007 - Alphonso Doss, Rekha Rao, C. F. John and A. P. Santhanaraj
August 2007 - India Now!- The Official Festival Exhibition- Collaborative exhibition with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Kensington for the Mayor of London’s INDIA NOW! festival with over thirty works from The Noble Sage collection.
August 2007 - She, India: India through the eyes of its women. 'She, India' featured the work of nine female artists from India. Artists included: Gayatri Gamuz, Asma Menon, Eleena Banik and V. Anamika
April 2008- Trilogy- M. Siva, Benitha Perciyal and N. Prasannakumar
June 2008 - In The Fore 2009 - Achuthan Kudallur, Ganesh Selvaraj, P. Jayakani and T. Athiveerapandian
September 2008 – Never Alone But Together- The drawings and sculptures of Ashok Patel
October 2008- Tasaduq Sohail- Small oils and watercolours
February 2009 - The Beating Heart of Kerala- The largest exhibition of works by artists from Kerala in the UK. The six artists included in the exhibition were Murali Nagapuzha, Manoj Vyloor, S. Ravi Shankar, T. R. Upendranath, A. S. Sajith and Pradeep Puthoor
May 2009 - In The Fore 2009 - A. P. Santhanaraj, Anoma and Narayanan V.
June 2009- January 2010 - Understanding Contemporary Art, Brent Museum
October 2009 - Further Towards Nature. New abstract canvases by T. Athiveerapandian
February 2010 - Chennai Revisited - Featuring V. Anamika, Shailesh BO, C. Dakshinamoorthy, Radha, N. Raghavan and G. Raman
April 2010 - Tableau. New works by S. Ravi Shankar
June 2010. The Vibrant World of Asia
The Noble Sage holds regular screenings of art house films from the Indian Subcontinent.
The Noble Sage has hosted literary evenings highlighting Asian writers and poets. They include:
Rohan Candappa
Ardashir Vakil
Jaishree Misra
Kamila Shamsie
Jeet Thayil
Aamer Hussein
Romesh Gunesekera
