Born in 1989 and based in Hyderabad, Harsha Durugadda is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in sculpture and expanded through performance and installation. Raised in a family of sculptors, he grew up working with stone before developing his own language that fuses craft with conceptual inquiry. His large-scale works layer wood, marble, and steel into strata-like forms that echo geology while drawing from medieval and modern architectural references. By incorporating rhythm, vibration, and sound, Durugadda transforms sculpture into a participatory medium where touch, sound, and movement extend the language of form. This philosophy shapes works such as Column of Sound (2017), a monumental visualization of audio waves that won the prestigious Rio Tinto Sculpture Award and now stands permanently on the Busselton foreshore in Western Australia.