Shachi Shah
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Shachi Shah began her ceramics practice in 2021 with two years of intensive training at Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry, India. Working through a disciplined, repetition-based wheel-throwing program, she built a strong foundation in form alongside hands-on experience in wood firing and clay body preparation. This period shaped her approach to making through attention, repetition, and an intuitive understanding of material.Since then, she has continued developing her practice independently through small commissions, sales, and participation in communal firings. In 2024, she spent six months at Gaya Ceramics Arts Center in Bali, Indonesia, as an intern, assisting internationally established ceramic artists while refining her own body of work. This experience expanded her understanding of studio practice through exposure to diverse techniques, firing approaches, and ways of working within a shared ceramic environment.
Shachi makes simple, strong functional pots rooted in wheel-thrown forms that are often altered through coiling or paddling, allowing subtle shifts in structure and movement. She is interested in how small decisions in a curve, rim, or proportion can carry presence without excess. She creates work to be held, used, and lived with, finding meaning when a vessel becomes part of everyday living. Her practice is shaped by the ongoing exchange between object and person, form and touch. |
