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Adil Writer studied Architecture at Sir J J School of Architecture, Mumbai (B. Arch, 1983), and University of Houston, Texas, USA (M.Arch, 1987). He trained in ceramics under Ray Meekar and Deborah Smith, Pondicherry (1998-2000). He has learnt a variety of skills working with and training under several potters and ceramists such as Jim Danisch, Jane Perryman, Mike Dodd, Sandy Brown, Betty Woodman (all at Workshops at Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry), Savneet Talwar, Andretta, Kent Rothman, Mendocino Art Centre, California, USA, John Wolman, Grass Valley, California, USA, Paul Soldner, Rudy Autio, Tom Collins, Rodney Mott at Penryn, California, USA, and Manisha Bhattacharya, Kodaikanal. Adil has had two solo shows to date and been invited to participate in over 25 group shows in India and abroad. He is currently partner at Mandala Pottery, Auroville, and production and studio potter with Anamika, Chinmayi and Krishnamoorthy.
Adil Writer’s work is inspired by pillars, posts, temple walls, graffiti, weathered lines on rolling stones … and faith. He continues to be amazed by how the daily doses of faith in south India, where one sees how a simple stone lying by the road suddenly triggers off actions that end up transforming it into a sacred shrine. Adil also works with graffiti, scribbles, thoughts and ‘moods of the day’ which find their way onto stony clay surfaces, sometimes in clear and legible ways, often just a memory from the ‘windmills of my mind’.
Adil Writer lives and works in Auroville, Pondicherry.
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