BLOSSOMING - BEING ALL OF THEM SHE STANDS THERE

Priya Sundaravalli’s studio practice is a spiritual quest, where she allows her forms, through rhythm and multiplicity, to express the poetic and organic beauty of nature. Her large sculpture Blossoming - Being all of them She Stands There is crafted from eight fibre glass discs and connecting membranes, whose entire surface is covered with more than 3,000 ceramic flowers and tesserae. She draws her inspiration from Thiruvaimozhi, a collection of Tamil hymns by the 9th century Alvar saint, Nammalvar. One of these hymns praises the Divine: “this man, that woman, and these things… being all of them, He stands there”.

While pursuing her degree in industrial engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, PRIYA SUNDARAVALLI learnt ceramics from the late Felipe Ortega, a master from the Jicarilla Apache tradition, New Mexico. Priya has been a resident artist at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum, South Korea and is currently an artist-in-residence at the European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands. She has had several solo and group shows to her credit and her work has found place in several public art collections including the Gimhae Airport in Busan, South Korea and at the GVK Museum at the Chhatrapatti Shivaji Airport in Mumbai, India.