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Ashwini Bhat (born 1980) is an Indian ceramic artist who creates wood-fired ceramic sculptural work...
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Biography and Work
Born in Puttur, Karnataka, Ashwini Bhat earned a master's degree in literature from Bangalore University. She studied classical dance (Bharata Natyam) for ten years and traveled internationally as a professional dancer in the Padmini Chettur Dance Company for four years before beginning a career as a ceramic artist.
Bhat studied ceramics with Ray Meeker at Golden Bridge PotteryPondicherry where she later worked as an artist-in-residence.
In 2012, Bhat built a studio and woodfiring kiln near Auroville, Pondicherry, India. She continues to create sculptural ceramic art there and abroad.
Style and Critical responses
Ashwini Bhat makes coil-built or hand-built stoneware and large-scale sculptural forms in a downdraft or anagama kiln.
She has collaborated with other international artists and writers, including Sharbani Das Gupta, Debra Smith, Seth Rainville, and Forrest Gander. In addition to gallery shows in India, her work has been exhibited in the USA, in Australia and in China and featured in major art publications such as The Logbook (Ireland), New Ceramics (Germany), Ceramic Art and Perception (Australia/USA), Marg Publications (India), Ceramics Ireland (Ireland), Ceramics Monthly (USA), Crafts Arts International (Australia), Info Ceramica (Spain), Art India (India), and Art New England (USA)
Awards
Collections and Exhibitions
