Name : Nehal Rachh
Brief Bio : Education
1994 Graphic Design (Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda)
1995 Kanoria Center for Arts (multi-disciplinary group studios)
1997 Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry
(Spent 7 months learning functional Pottery and wood firing techniques with Ray Meeker)
1998/99 Ceramic Center, Baroda (community studio)
2004 Bridge Course (one year course in art history and aesthetics at the M.S.University, Baroda)
Residencies
2008 Mangrove Ceramic Studio, Bangalore
2003 Rufford Ceramic Centre, Nottingham (UK)
2000 VAAS, International art studio and Gallery(France)
Solo shows
2010 Faculty of Fine arts, Baroda
2009 Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2002 Nazar art Gallery, Baroda
Selected Group Shows
2010
‘Hope for Haiti’ Auction and exhibition, The Grand Hyatt, Mumbai
‘The Baroda March’, The Strand Art Room, Mumbai
‘Tathagat’, faculty of fine arts, Baroda
Group show, Sarjan art gallery, Baroda
2009
India Art Summit, New Delhi
‘Feats of clay’, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
‘Strands of Joy’, Rukshaan art, Mumbai
‘Miniature format show’, sans tache art gallery, Mumbai
‘Maati’ Terracotta show at India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2008
‘Whose touch this is, I think I know’ Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
‘Delhi Blue pottery award show, IHC, New Delhi
‘In Depth’, Gallery Art and Soul, Mumbai
‘Allure art gallery’, Baroda
‘Miniature format show’, Sans tache art gallery (Mumbai)
2007
‘Art forms and forms of art’, Red Earth galleries (Baroda)
‘Indian Ceramics today -2’
(Exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculpture-Lemon Grasshopper gallery (Ahemdabad)
‘Point of Reference’, Art and Soul art gallery (Mumbai)
‘Instilling Life’, Hacienda art gallery (Mumbai)
‘Feb show’, Red Earth galleries (Baroda)
2006
‘Form to Function’, Habitat Centre (New Delhi)
2005
‘Earth Strokes’ Art and Soul art gallery, (Mumbai)
‘Harmony Show (Mumbai)
‘Mobile/Immobile’ Sarjan art gallery (Baroda)
‘Earth Plates’, Faculty of Fine Arts gallery (Baroda)
2004
`Potters platters’ (Chennai)
Anant art gallery (New Delhi)
‘Made at Rufford’, Nottingham (UK)
2003
‘Lady Bay open studios’ Nottingham UK
2002
‘Harmony’ Mumbai
‘Water’, Delhi Blue Pottery, New Delhi
2000
Studio potters 2000, Cymroza Art Gallery Mumbai
Awards
2007 Awarded the junior fellowship (Ministry of Culture, Govt of India)
Workshops
2009 ceramic camp at ‘Uttarayan’ studios, Jaspur (Baroda)
2009 Terracota Camp at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi
2004 ‘Terracotta plates’ (Indore)
‘Mural making’ Auroville, Pondicherry
1999 `Paper clay’ with Kristine Michael
1998 `Hand building’ with Robert Bussabager
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