Siramdasu Venkata Rama Rao was born in Gudivada, British India (now India) in 1936. He arrived in England in 1962 on a Commonwealth Fellowship, studying at the Slade School of Fine Art until 1965. As a celebrated cubist painter, Rao was centrally involved in the early formation of the Indian Painters Collective, the first group of its kind in the UK.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/siramdasu-venkata-rama-rao