Kelly Sildaru
Born and raised in Estonia, Kelly quickly became fixated on skiing. But not only is the ski season in Estonia extremely short, there also isn’t much of a scene for it there. Such things weren’t going to stop her from accomplishing her dreams, though. Her sheer love for the sport, combined with an astounding natural ability to effortlessly pull off tricks that some pros wouldn’t dare attempt, led her parents to traverse the world looking for new and challenging experiences for their daughter.
One of Kelly’s greatest early accomplishments came when she was just ten years old at the 2012 Mayrhofen Freeski Open in Austria, where she wowed judges and fellow athletes alike as she landed an astonishing switch 900 that led her to win the competition – a trick that she hadn’t attempted prior to that day.
In the 2016 Winter X Games Kelly became the youngest-ever gold medallist when she landed the slopestyle title and she was also the youngest to have won two X Games golds.
Artist: Rohini Devasher
(Image Credit: Olympics)
Artist
Rohini Devasher is one of the more prolific contemporary artists in India today, and also much celebrated—she has won the Inlaks Fine Arts Award twice in a row (2007, 2008), received the Sarai Associate Fellowship, and won the Art India Skoda Breakthrough Artist award. Since 2001, after graduating from the Winchester School of Art, England, where she did a master’s in printmaking, she has also been part of multiple residencies, such as at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Khoj Art+Science residency in Delhi and the Wasanii International Artists Workshop in Kenya.