Javaria Ahmad is a ceramic artist, teaching ceramics at the National College of Arts, Lahore since 2018. Currently she is a visiting fellow artist of 2020 to 2021 at the Laxmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University. Her work has exhibited widely Nationally and Internationally in countries like China, Nepal, India, Taiwan and America. Recently her work has exhibited at the 2020 Taiwan Ceramic Biennale, and is now in the collection of Yingge Ceramic Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. She is the recipient of famous ceramic residencies including the Kalapremi Ceramic Residency, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2017 and The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan, 2021.
Artist Statement
Javeria through her multidisciplinary art practice with ceramics as a major medium of work, explores the ambivalentrelation of everyday utilitarian objects with traditional cultural practices that she observe in her surroundings. She choses work media that conceptually scaffold her work and speaks of femininity was a natural and intuitive process. The elements of linearity and repetition are significant in her visual and conceptual language. She employs the metaphor of domestic objects in her work as a reminiscent of her ancestral inheritance.
