My research-based practice investigates enduring entanglements between ecology, colonial histories, and cultures of consumption. Working with clay and textiles, I examine how land, plants, and bodies were historically remade into resources and the ways in which these extractive frameworks continue to shape our relationship with the natural world.

My work focuses on displacement of plant worlds and insects to revisit complex histories of colonization, revealing their centrality in projects of imperial expansion. This non-linear rizhomatic approach that centers more-than-human as historical agents rather than passive backdrop, explores how their worlds were classified and commodified within imperial networks. Archival research, museum encounters and foraging from botanical gardens allow me to trace their journeys through systems of extraction. From this alternate gaze, displacement emerges as a shared condition, that foregrounds links of colonial pasts with imperial presents.

Thinking through materials and methods, meaning in my practice emerges from the act of making itself. I am drawn to clay’s capacity to record through marks, inclusions and processes of transformation, such that each work becomes a site where sedimented histories can be reactivated and retold, as a means of navigating and responding to an increasingly fragmented and dysfunctional world.

ABOUT

I am a ceramic artist, currently pursuing MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art London, generously supported by the President and Vice Chancellor International Scholarship.
I graduated with a bachelors degree in product design in 2003. This was followed by more than a decade long stint in the industry, during which I got to experiment and create with multiple materials. Luckily for me, my work took me around the world, and I always found myself drawn to ceramics on these travels. However, it was only much later in 2017, that I discovered working with clay through a community studio that I joined on a whim. With time I realised that I connected with ceramics at a deeper level, it helped me express thoughts that were otherwise hard to verbalise.
I have had some wonderful opportunities to exhibit my work in India and abroad. I currently work out of RCA studios in London and my studio in Bangalore, where I continue to explore…unlearn and learn the beautiful medium of clay.

AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS

Recipient of RCA’s prestigious President and Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship, Charlotte Fraser Award UK 2026, Jyotsna Bhatt Ceramics Award 2023, PDAF Gold Award 2023 and Merit Award 2022.

Her work has been exhibited and collected across India and internationally, including

• Sentience of Small Beings, Kathiwada City House, Mumbai and Khoj Studios, Delhi (2026)
• India Design ID, Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi (2025)
• Jaipur Art Week, Jaipur (2025)
• My Peeking Red Bra Strap, Apre Art House, Mumbai (2025)
• Contours of Contemporary, Gallery Latitude 28, Gurgaon (2024)
• Prerna by PDAF at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2024)
• Wasteland, a solo showcase at Ark Foundation, Vadodara (2024)
• Elemental, Kanoria Centre of Arts, Ahmedabad (2024)
• Realm of Ethos, Gallery Veda, Chennai (2024)
• Earth and Sea, a collateral of Indian Ceramics Triennale, New Delhi (2024)
• Inscapes, Gallery Latitude 28, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023)
• Art Mumbai, Gallery Latitude 28, Mumbai (2023)
• Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi (2023)
• PDAF exhibition at CSMVS Kala Ghoda, Mumbai (2023)
• Indian Ceramic Art Foundation show, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (2023)
• The Bombay Art Society Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2023 and 2021)
• PDAF Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2022)
• Synchronized, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (2019)
• India Welcome, Gallery Zvonimir, Zagreb, Croatia (2019)
• 21st AIFACS show, New Delhi (2019)