ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice is an inquiry into the tumultuous relationship we humans share with the land around us. In this time of acute environmental urgency, it investigates our perceptions of separateness from and supremacy over nature. Intrigued by the intertwined reality of our environment, I explore shifting spaces between order-disorder, new growth-decay, the apparent and the hidden.

My process is one of purposeful layering. Interacting dynamically with clay, I marry contrasting aesthetics of partially broken, seemingly decayed, disintegrated forms with carefully considered imagery using coloured slips, washes, englobes and glazes. Surfaces are built up, eroded and assembled over multiple firings as an attempt to capture the temporality of all existence. A cohesive interplay between creatures, colours and forms construct narratives that attempt to render the intricate complexities of our natural habitats.

Positioned at intersections of art and ecology, I am concerned with how culture can play a vital role towards environmental justice and balance. My works proposition to decolonise nature and rethink our systemic alignment with extractive practices as routes to prosperity. They implore the viewer to delve deeper into the urgencies of climate positive action and find a common ground to re-imagine reciprocal relationships between the human and more-than-human.

ABOUT

I am a self taught artist. 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. Most recently, my work was featured in the Art and Deal Magazine. I currently work out of my studio in Delhi, where I continue to explore…unlearn and learn the beautiful medium of clay.

AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS

Recipient of the Jyotsna Bhatt Ceramics Award (2023), Prafulla Dahanukar Kalanand Gold Award, CSMVS Mumbai (2023) and Merit Award, Jehangir Art Gallery (2022).

Her work has been exhibited at many shows including

  • Earth and Sea, curated by Kristine Michael, as a collateral show of Indian Ceramics Triennale at Gallery Art Motif New Delhi (2024)
  • Inscapes, an exhibition curated by Premjish Achari and Bhavna Kakkar, Gallery Latitude 28 at Bikaner House New Delhi (2023)
  • Art Mumbai with Bhavna Kakkar, Gallery Latitude 28 at Mahalaxmi Racecourse Mumbai (2023)
  • Delhi Contemporary Art Week with Bhavna Kakkar, Gallery Latitude 28 at Bikaner House New Delhi (2023)
  • Prafulla Dahanuakar Art Foundation (PDAF) exhibition at CSMVS Kala Ghoda Mumbai (2023)
  • Indian Ceramic Art Foundation (ICAF) show at Kalakriti Art Gallery Hyderabad (2023)
  • The Bombay Art Society All India Annual Art Exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery (2023 and 2021)
  • Prafulla Dahanuakar Art Foundation (PDAF) show at Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai (2022)
  • Synchronized, an exhibition curated by Rekha Bajpe at India Habitat Centre New Delhi (2019)
  • India Welcome, an exhibition of contemporary ceramics in India organised by the Indian Embassy at Gallery Zvonimir at Zagreb Croatia (2019)
  • 21st AIFACS show New Delhi (2019)