Kishita Nayyar is an Artist and Ceramicist based in Delhi,India. After completing her Masters in Illustration and Visual Media from London College of Communication at University of the Arts London, she worked as a ceramic educator and technician at several design studios in London before moving back to India in 2026 to pursue her practice.
The female experience of India has always been central to her practice, approached through clay as a form of memory, a material that holds the imprint of hands, of place, of culture. She is interested in how the particularity of a material — its texture, plasticity, shrinkage, and colour — shapes the meaning of what gets made.
About the Artwork:
Title: Bound
Medium: Ceramic
Bound was developed during a ceramic residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, where my practice became influenced by the surrounding landscape and a heightened awareness of place. Immersed in nature, I reflected on the tension between human-made boundaries—nationalities, borders, systems of belonging—and nature's quiet indifference to these divisions. The piece is an emotional and material response to this experience. While physically situated within a specific geography, shaped by its cultural and political context, the natural world felt expansive and unconcerned with such constructs. Clay became a way to process this contradiction, its fluidity mirroring movement beyond fixed borders.