Ashwini Bhat
| Ashwini Bhat | |
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 Ashwini Bhat at Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry | |
| Born | Puttur, India |
| Occupation | Artist |
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Ashwini Bhat is an Indian ceramic artist who creates ceramic sculptural work.[1]
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 Pottery[2][3]Pondicherry where she later worked as an artist-in-residence.
In 2012, Bhat built a studio and woodfiring kiln near Auroville, Pondicherry, India.[4] Since 2015, she has lived in the USA where she makes sculptural ceramics and collaborates with artists in other genres.[5]
In 2017, Bhat is a Guest Artist at StarWorks for the International Wood-fire Conference in North Carolina and at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shiga, Japan.[6]
Currently, Bhat lives in Petaluma and teaches at the Sonoma Community Centre, California.[7]
Style and critical responses
Ashwini Bhat makes coil-built or hand-built stoneware and large-scale sculptural forms. Although she fires her work mostly in a woodfiring anagama kiln[8], she also uses electric or gas kilns.
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),[9] New Ceramics (Germany),[10] Ceramic Art and Perception (Australia/USA), Marg Publications (India), Ceramics Ireland (Ireland), Ceramics Monthly (USA), Crafts Arts International (Australia),[11] Info Ceramica (Spain),[12] Art India (India), and Art New England (USA)[13]
Stephen S. Bush, professor of religious studies and philosophy at Brown University, writes in his essay ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Emerson and Ashwini Bhat’ [14], “The terrestrial themes of her sculptures, in combination with their humanistic sensibility, emphasize the fundamental embeddedness of humans in their geologic environs and the continuities between humanity and nature. By grounding human concerns so thoroughly in the dirt—used here as a term of approbation—Bhat’s sculptures speak of thoroughly immanent value.”
Awards
- The Howard Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture (2013–14)[15][16]
- Shortlisted for Emerging Artist Award (2013–14), ICMEA 2013, Fuping, China[17]
Collections and exhibitions
- "50 Women: A Celebration of Women's Contributions to Ceramics" at the American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, USA, 2016[18][19]
- “Standing Wave Exhibition,” The Studios Inc, National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 2016 Conference, Kansas City, USA[20]
- Indian Museum at the FLICAM (FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums), Fuping, China[21][22]
- Sculpture Garden, Grand Hyatt, Chennai, India[23]
- Collection of Dr Raj and Asha Kubba, New Delhi, India[24]
- "Earth Took of Earth," solo show, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island, USA[25][26][27]
- "Terra Firma," a two-person show with Sharbani Das Gupta, AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI, USA[28][29]
- United Art Fair, New Delhi, India[30]
- "Allegory of Fire," Clayspace Co-op, Asheville, North Carolina, USA[31]
References
- ↑ Bill Van Siclen Journal Arts Writer. "Ashwini Bhat's sculptures, at Newport Art Museum, show a dancer's poise". providencejournal.com.
- ↑ "What you see when you see: Pottery in Pondicherry now and then". Bangaloremirror.
- ↑ "Bringing you art in teapots". The New Indian Express.
- ↑ "The Log Book". thelogbook.net.
- ↑ Sujatha Shankar Kumar. "On the trail of a Gypsy Potter". The Hindu.
- ↑ "Biwako Broadcasting Japan".
- ↑ "sonoma ceramics welcomes ashwini bhat".
- ↑ "Ceramic art". The Hindu.
- ↑ "The Log Book. número 48, 2011 - Infocerámica". infoceramica.com.
- ↑ "New Ceramics: Issue 06/14". new-ceramics.com.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
- ↑ "Cerámica india - Infocerámica". infoceramica.com.
- ↑ "Art New England - May / June 2015". ArtNewEngland.
- ↑ "Philosophical Perspectives on Emerson and Ashwini Bhat". RiotMaterial.
- ↑ "Previous Fellows". brown.edu.
- ↑ "Prince Awarded Howard Fellowship « RISD Academic Affairs".
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
- ↑ "Upcoming Events - EXHIBITION: 50 Women – A Celebration of Women's Contributions to Ceramics - American Jazz Museum". Archived from the original on 2016-01-23.
- ↑ http://fox4kc.com/2016/03/22/american-jazz-museum-exhibit-displays-ceramic-arts/
- ↑ http://temporaryartreview.com/nceca-alternative-spaces/
- ↑ http://www.futogp.com/Showtyj.asp?id=283%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
- ↑ "The China feeling: experiments with clay in the middle country". thefreelibrary.com.
- ↑ KAUSALYA SANTHANAM. "A Passage to India". The Hindu.
- ↑ "Delhi Blue Pottery Trust". delhibluepotterytrust.com.
- ↑ Newport Art Museum. "Ashwini Bhat: Earth Took of Earth". newportartmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 23 March 2015.
- ↑ "February Openings at the Newport Art Museum". abigaelelizabeth.com.
- ↑ "At the Museum: Winter exhibits show art community's diversity". NewportRI.com l News and information for Newport, Rhode Island.
- ↑ "Terra Firma: Gallery Show of Sharbani Das Gupta and Ashwini Bhat". Brown University. 17 March 2015.
- ↑ "Artscope Magazine » Current Issue". artscopemagazine.com.
- ↑ "Q&A: Heidi Fichtner on UAF 2013 - BLOUIN ARTINFO". Artinfo.
- ↑ "Arts & Thoughts Artistic - - Page 2". wordpress.com.