Shweta Mansingka

The essence of thoughts can not really be captured by tangibles, but using clay as a medium I try to express what has moved me deeply or left an impact on my journey of life. My work responds to ideologies or philosophies that prod me to introspect, mulling deeper, pushing gently to explore the multifaceted layers under the water washed landscape of life and living.

My conversations with clay started in 1989 with sculptural terracottas, trying to capture a moment in time, a fluid movement or expression, an intensely felt emotion by using the empty abstract spaces in between realistic figurative forms.

I believe that clay has a silent strength, a being…. An ability to hold in its form a wordless expression of an artists thoughts.
It is malleable, soft, yielding and at the same time possesses within the inherent strength to withstand the greatest forces of nature.
Its very nature fascinates me.
Its silent strength is my inspiration.

Even while using similar processes or techniques each of my artworks lives through its own passage through fire living out its individual catharsis to evolve emerging completely unique…
…its story hence resonates deeply with our own human journey of life.

2017 - Masterclass at Keramikos Alberto Busto
2016 - Workshop with Jolanda Verdegal
2012 - Workshop Mystique of Black-ware with John Ferguson
2011 - Paper clay workshop with Antonella Cimatti
2008 - Raku and Alternate Firing Techniques Miami University Ohio
2008 - Crystalline Glaze workshop with John Stroomer
2007 - Raku workshop with Tim Andrews
2000 - Kiln making with Shri Devi Prashad
1999 - Tool making with Shri Devi Prashad
1999-2000 - Pottery under Shri Devi Prashad
1997-1998 - Glazing with Rachna Parasher
1989-1995 - Terracotta Sculpture under Shri Ram Kumar Manna in Calcutta

2022 - Cluster Crafts fair - We are ugly duck, London
2021 - “Life is better in Black and white” - Gallery Art Positive, Delhi.
2021 - “Bhū” - Emami Art Gallery, Kolkata.
2021 - “Table Manners” - Art & Soul Gallery, Mumbai.
2021 - “Unlocking the object” - Apparao Galleries, Online Ceramic show.
2021 - “Yatra Naryasthu” - NGMA National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi.
2021 - “Earthen Transmutations” - Gallery Latitude 28, Online Ceramic show.
2020 - “Myths, Minds & Materials” - Apparao Galleries, Online sculpture show.
2019 - “Matisse Revised” - Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkatta.
2018- “Fruit the womb of creation” Awarded Silver Plaque at International Exhibition of Ceramics and Glass MIKS18 - Zagreb, Croatia.
2018 - “International Exhibition of Ceramics and Glass MIKS 18” - Zagreb, Croatia.
2018 - “Zagreb Ex Tempore 2018” - Croatia
2018 - “H2O” - AKFD - Jaipur
2018 - Porcelain - Group show at Visual Arts Gallery - India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2017 - Infinite Earth - Group show at Open Palm Court, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2017 - A Journey of Transformation - Group show at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2017 - The seeker and the sought - Gallery Art Centrix, New Delhi. ...