Amiya Bhanushali
Amiya Bhanushali is a shibari artist.
Era: 2020s
SHIBARI ARTIST · EDUCATOR
India-based shibari artist, educator, performer and curator behind Silly Hands Shibari. Homegrown identifies Amiya as a Mumbai-based shibari facilitator and frames Silly Hands as their independent project; The Nod describes Mumbai as Amiya's home city, notes private sessions at a home studio and covers teaching across Mumbai, Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The current Silly Hands Linktree presents the project as a professional rope studio led by @amiyabhanushali, with events, private sessions and a multi-city India waitlist. The Established describes Amiya as a Mumbai / Goa-based practitioner and curator. Public media and culture sources also credit Amiya as the shibari artist for Karshni Nair's 2025 `Malapropism` music video and list Amiya among artists in `Spoken Bones Issue 02`.
Official links
Sources
- Linktree: Silly Hands Shibari catalogue record
- Instagram: Amiya / @amiyabhanushali catalogue record
- Homegrown: Artist Amiya Bhanushali Is Popularising Shibari As A Form Of Healing catalogue record
- The Nod: What goes on inside a shibari class? catalogue record
- The Established: Can so-called vice industries thrive in India without silencing the voices that built them? catalogue record
- Urbanaut: SHS Workshop - Futomomo for Nerds catalogue record
- Homegrown: Karshni Nair's New Single Confronts The Politics Of Language, Power, & Consent catalogue record
- Rolling Stone India: Premiere - Karshni Reclaims Power in Unsettling Malapropism Video catalogue record
- The Indian Music Diaries: In Conversation With Karshni catalogue record
- YouTube: Karshni - MALAPROPISM (Official Music Video) catalogue record
- Good Press: SPOKEN BONES ISSUE 02 catalogue record
Associated venues, magazines, films and performances: Silly Hands Shibari.