Ashwini Bhat

Ashwini Bhat
Ashwini Bhat at Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry
Born	23 April 1980 Puttur, India
Occupation	Artist
Website
ashwinibhat.com

Ashwini Bhat (born 1980) is an Indian ceramic artist who creates wood-fired 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] 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.^[5]

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),^[6] New Ceramics (Germany),^[7] Ceramic Art and Perception (Australia/USA), Marg Publications (India), Ceramics Ireland (Ireland), Ceramics Monthly (USA), Crafts Arts International (Australia),^[8] Info Ceramica (Spain),^[9] Art India (India), and Art New England (USA)^[10]

Awards

• The Howard Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture (2013–14)^[11][12]
• Shortlisted for Emerging Artist Award (2013–14), ICMEA 2013, Fuping, China^[13]

Collections and Exhibitions

• "50 Women: A Celebration of Women's Contributions to Ceramics" at the American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, USA, 2016^{[14] [15]}
• “Standing Wave Exhibition,” The Studios Inc, National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 2016 Conference, Kansas City, USA
• Indian Museum at the FLICAM (FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums), Fuping, China^[16][17]
• Sculpture Garden, Grand Hyatt, Chennai, India^[18]
• Collection of Dr Raj and Asha Kubba, New Delhi, India^[19]
• "Earth Took of Earth," solo show, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island, USA^[20][21][22]
• "Terra Firma," a two-person show with Sharbani Das Gupta, AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI, USA^[23][24]
• United Art Fair, New Delhi, India^[25]
• "Allegory of Fire," Clayspace Co-op, Asheville, North Carolina, USA^[26]

References

1. Bill Van Siclen Journal Arts Writer. "Ashwini Bhat's sculptures, at Newport Art Museum, show a dancer's poise". providencejournal.com.
2. "What you see when you see: Pottery in Pondicherry now and then". Bangaloremirror.
3. "Bringing you art in teapots". The New Indian Express.
4. "The Log Book". thelogbook.net.
5. "Ceramic art". The Hindu.
6. "The Log Book. número 48, 2011 - Infocerámica". infoceramica.com.
7. "New Ceramics: Issue 06/14". new-ceramics.com.
8. https://www.craftarts.com.au/eshopping/shop/IssueDetail.asp?ID=89
9. "Cerámica india - Infocerámica". infoceramica.com.
10. "Art New England - May / June 2015". ArtNewEngland.
11. "Previous Fellows". brown.edu.
12. "Prince Awarded Howard Fellowship « RISD Academic Affairs".
13. http://www.icmea2004.com/images/ICMEA2013%20EMERGING%20ARTISTS-PRELIMINARY%20SELECTED%20_%E6%96%B0%E7%A7%80%E7%AB%9E%E8%B5%9B%E5%85%A5%E5%9B%B4%E5%90%8D%E5%8D%95_.pdf
14. "Upcoming Events - EXHIBITION: 50 Women – A Celebration of Women’s Contributions to Ceramics - American Jazz Museum".
15. http://fox4kc.com/2016/03/22/american-jazz-museum-exhibit-displays-ceramic-arts/
16. http://www.futogp.com/Showtyj.asp?id=283
17. "The China feeling: experiments with clay in the middle country.". thefreelibrary.com.
18. KAUSALYA SANTHANAM. "A Passage to India". The Hindu.
19. "Delhi Blue Pottery Trust". delhibluepotterytrust.com.
20. Newport Art Museum. "Ashwini Bhat: Earth Took of Earth". newportartmuseum.org.
21. "February Openings at the Newport Art Museum". abigaelelizabeth.com.
22. "At the Museum: Winter exhibits show art community’s diversity". NewportRI.com l News and information for Newport, Rhode Island.
23. "Terra Firma: Gallery Show of Sharbani Das Gupta and Ashwini Bhat". Brown University. 17 March 2015.
24. "Artscope Magazine » Current Issue". artscopemagazine.com.
25. "Q&A: Heidi Fichtner on UAF 2013 - BLOUIN ARTINFO". Artinfo.
26. "Arts & Thoughts Artistic - - Page 2". wordpress.com.

External links

• Official Website