My research-based practice investigates entanglements between ecology, colonial histories, and cultures of consumption. Working with clay and textiles, I examine how land, plants, and bodies were remade into resources. Through archival research at botanical gardens, I trace these historical remakings of nature.

Extending beyond institutional records, I also forage plants from these gardens to map the material residues of imperial botany. Moving away from human exceptionalism, my practice adopts a more-than-human lens. By centring plants and insects as historical agents rather than passive backdrops, I trace how botanical worlds were classified, displaced, and commodified within imperial networks, reflecting on colonialism’s enduring ruination.

ABOUT

I am a ceramic artist, currently pursuing MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art London, 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 the Charlotte Fraser Ceramics and Glass Award, UK (2026), 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

• India Design ID with Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi (2025)
• Jaipur Art Week, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (2025)
• Sentience of Small Beings, NAU Foundation, Vadodara (2025)
• My Peeking Red Bra Strap, Apre Art House, Mumbai (2025)
• Contours of Contemporary, Gallery Latitude 28, Gurgaon (2024)
• Prerna by Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai (2024)
• Wasteland, a solo showcase at Ark Foundation, Vadodara (2024)
• Elemental, an Indian Ceramic Art Foundation (ICAF) collaboration at Kanoria Centre of Arts, Ahmedabad (2024)
• Realm of Ethos, Gallery Veda, Chennai (2024)
• 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)