Sakshi Mathuriya
Sakshi Mathuria is a mostly self-taught ceramic artist. She has trained under Neha
Kudchadkar and Sandeep Manchekar. She was awarded the Multicultural Fellowship, 2024 by NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts).
She has been artist-in-residence at Rochester Folk Art Guild in New York and at Cub Creek Foundation, Virginia, USA. In 2023, she was part of a unique program Ajab Gajab Bazaar by the Kabir Project, wherein using the medium of clay South Asian folk and mystic poetry was explored with over 250 children.
In 2022, she founded Studio MetaMaati at an eco-farm on the outskirts of Pune,
where she works on her ceramics practice and facilitates beginners workshops. With
Her work, Sakshi explores personal rituals of interconnectedness with the natural world. She works with Nerikomi, the Japanese technique of creating patterns with different coloured clay bodies, making works that archive the ephemeral experience of everyday interactions with land.
