Eline Groeneweg-Bhatt is a Dutch textile designer based in India. Her studio brings together Indian textile traditions and her Dutch design background, integrating distinct design approaches and visual languages to create a dialogue between cultures.
In collaboration with craftspeople, she creates limited-edition textiles designed for exhibition and interior spaces. The resulting pieces — wall hangings, textile panels, and spatial dividers — connect cultures and invite new ways of seeing.
“I set out to create a visual language. A shared language, or at least a language that brings together elements of both my worlds. I am not seeking a confrontation between one and the other, but rather the quiet space in between.”
Her process begins with abstract collages — intuitive, layered compositions of colour, shape, pattern, and texture. Informed by multiple, often juxtaposed, realities that she observes in her surroundings, - from the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, where she lived for several years, to desert state Gujarat, where she now has a home - these visual studies not only form the foundation of her textile practice, but also stand as works in their own right.
Work by Studio Bhatt has been exhibited internationally at the Fashion and Textile Museum (London), Fries Museum, Dutch Design Week (Netherlands), the Kanoria Centre for Arts (India) and other cultural venues.
Eline has a background in both artistic practice and theoretical studies, holding degrees in Textile Design (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam) and Arts and Cultural Studies / Arts Administration (Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of London). Alongside her studio practice, she is a regular visiting lecturer at design academies in India.
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Eline Groeneweg-Bhatt is a Dutch textile designer based in India, focusing on handmade, limited-edition textiles for interior spaces. Her studio brings together Indian textile traditions with her Dutch design background, integrating distinct approaches and visual languages to create a dialogue between cultures.