Adil Writer ::: contemporary artist from Auroville, South India

ABOUT ADIL

	~ exhibitions
	~ bio data
	~ workshops

with Sandy Brown, appledore,UK ,2006

with Paul Soldner at Woodstock

Tom Collin`s pot, my painting & glazing

with Mike Dodd, UK, 2006

Rudy Autio with a volkous bronze at Woodstock

with John Leach & Rekha Bajpe, UK, 2006

with janet mansfield, janet deboos, mirta mirogi at gulgong 2007

Selected Exhibitions

2010 “International Tiger Teapot Exhibition”, Noble Gallery, Shanghai, China.
2010 “Southern Fire”, Weavers Gallery, Kolkata. (ceramic group show)
2010 “Modern Pot Art”, Shanghai Arts & Crafts Museum, China.
2010 “Another Way of Tea”, Kala Kendra, Auroville, (ceramics and paintings)
2010 “Journey – V”, Gallery Art & Soul, Bombay (group show, ceramic          participation)
2009 "pASHion – Ash glazed, anagama fired ceramics”, Sarjan Art Gallery,          Baroda. (group show)
2009 "The White Rabbit", Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
         (Solo show presented by the Delhi Blue Pottery Trust, ceramics &          painted media)
2009 "2nd Shanghai-Shenyao International Wood-kiln Exhibition ", Gallery          Shenyao, Shanghai, China. (invitational show)
2009 "5th World Ceramic Exposition Foundation",
         International Competition, (CEBIKO), Korea. (Selected entry)
2009 "Small Objects - Fete Picasso Auction", Vallauris, France. (Ceramic          works)
2009 "International Teapot Show", Shanghai, China.
2009 "Maati - Explorations in Terracotta", India Habitat Centre, New Delhi          (Delhi Blue Pottery Trust’s international show)
2009 "Sculptural Tea Pot Show", Prakrit Gallery, Chennai. (group show)
2008 "Mad Hatters Tea Party", ICIA Gallery, Bombay. (All India teapot show)
2008 "Sanbao Ceramics", Jingdezhen Sanbao International Ceramic Studio,          China.
2008 "Resonances", Provence, France. (Group mixed media by Marie Claire          Barsotti)
2008 "Threshold", Gallery Art & Soul, Bombay. (Solo, ceramics & painted          media )
2008 "Miniatures", Artist Centre Gallery, Bombay.(Solo, ceramics & painted          media)
2008 "Mad Hatter’s Party", ICIA Gallery, Bombay. (Ceramic teapot show)
2008 "Harmony 2008", Nehru Centre, Bombay (mixed media, All India Art          Shows hosted by Reliance Industries in 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008)
2008 "International Tea Pot Show", Shanghai, China.
2008 "Indian Studio Ceramics", Amdavad ni Gufa Gallery, Ahmedabad.
2008 "Table Manners – 2008", ceramics, co-curated by Rakhee Kane &          myself, Gallery Square Circle, Auroville.
2007 "Contemporary Ceramics Today", Lemongrasshopper Art Gallery,          Ahmedabad.
2007 "Clay Edge 2007", Cudgegong Gallery, Australia. (Invitational ceramic          show)
2007 "Chocolates and Nudes", Auroville (Ceramic and photographic          participation)
2006 "Globallery", Contemporary Indian Art show in cooperation with OAG,          Tokyo.
2006 "Asna Art", Karachi, Pakistan. (International ceramic show)
2006 "Elit-Tile 2006", Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
          (International tile exhibition, participation in 2002, 2003 & 2006)
2006 "Liliput Miniature Ceramics", Croatia. (International ceramic exhibition)
          Award: best miniature teapot in show.
2005 "Stoneware", Hatworks Boulevard, Bangalore (Solo show, ceramics)
2005 "Windmills of Your Mind", Auroville (Solo show - ceramics and          photography)
2004 "Mandala", Gallery 25, New Delhi. (Mandala Potters’ group show)
2004 "Peace and Harmony", Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre,
         New Delhi. (Delhi Blue Pottery Trust’s international biennale)
2003 "Potters in Peril", National Gallery of Modern Art, Bombay (Indo- US          show)
2002 "Water", India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (Delhi Blue Pottery Trust’s           biennale)
2001 "T42, 24T", Apparao Gallery, Chennai. (All India Teapot Show)
2000 "Studio Pottery 2000", Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay (Delhi Blue
         Pottery Trust)

bio data
1978 -1983	Bachelor of Architecture, Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Bombay.
1983 -1985	Associate Architect at T. Khareghat & Associates, Bombay.
1985 -1987	Master of Architecture, University of Houston, Texas, USA.
1987 -1988	Architect at Gensler & Associates, San Francisco, California, USA.
1988 -1999	Associate Architect at Talati & Panthaky Associated Pvt. Ltd., Bombay.
1998 -2000	Training in ceramics at Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry, India, under Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith.
2001 -	Partner at Mandala Pottery, Auroville, India. Production and studio pottery with Anamika, Chinmayi and Krishnamoorthy.

workshops attented/conducted
2008	Anagama firing, Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry. (also in 2008; and in 2007 with Peter Thompson)
2007	Clay – Edge 2007, invitational ceramic event. Demonstrated the building and firing of a fire-stabilised mud-brick dome at Janet Mansfield’s property in Gulgong, Australia.
2007	Anagama firing with Peter Thompson, Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry.
2007	(Workshop conducted) Making of Snowy, a fire-stabilized mud-brick dome, Auroville.
2005	Manisha Bhattacharya, Raku, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India.
2004	(Workshop conducted) Terracotta, Indian Institute of Interior Designers, Panjim, Goa, India.
2002	Betty Woodman, Glazed Terracotta, Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry.
2001	Paul Soldner, Rudy Autio, Tom Collins, Woodstoke 2001, Penryn, CA, USA.
2001	John Wolman, Anagama Community Firing, Grass Valley, California, USA.
2001	Kent Rothman, Low-fire Salt and Soda, Mendocino Art Center, California, USA.
2001	Savneet Talwar, Explorations in Clay, Andretta Pottery, H. P., India
2001	Sandy Brown, Letting Go! Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry.
2000	Mike Dodd, Ash Glazes, Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry.
1999	Jane Perryman, Smoke-fired Pottery, Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry.
1999	Jim Danisch, Porcelain, Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry.