Adil Writer joined us on a filmed tour of his art studio in Auroville, and discussed his newest projects. You can see Adil’s works and our online presentation below.
The presentation includes a film we made in collaboration with our friends at AurovilleRadioTV which takes us on a tour of Adil’s studio, the wood firing kiln and watching Adil at work on his Savitri poetry pieces.
Adil was trained as an architect in Houston, TX, and joined Mandala Pottery, in Auroville in 2001. Join us to hear Adil’s story.
Adil’s Selected Works
ceramic mural
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The ceramics legacy in Auroville is a rich local tradition, which you can learn more about in the film by Adil Writer at the bottom of our page.
Adil Writer and the fellow potters at Mandala pottery have committed to creating a ceramics curriculum for local schools to continue the legacy of Ray and Deborah, the founders of the Auroville region ceramics tradition.
Auroville Ceramics are known throughout India, Auroville being a magnet for ceramicists throughout the country and internationally. Yet in Auroville, ceramics have not been fully taken up by the young generation of Aurovillians. The Wanderlust fund will help bring ceramics to local school and keep Auroville ceramic tradition alive.
Some of the distinguishing facets of Auroville Ceramics are sustainable wood firing, a high temperature technique which is sustainable due to the quality of local forest. High temperature wood firing yields rich and unusual glaze colors that are prized by ceramicists world-wide. Auroville Ceramics also source part of their clay mixture locally and are currently experimenting with local red clay mixes, both fostering local and susutainability of the craft.
The mission of the Wanderlust Fund is to promote a new generation of potters to carry on the Auroville Ceramics tradition.
Watch the AVI USA Auroville Live Monthly Presentation with Adil Writer
Golden Bridges is a short film by Adil Writer about the history of Auroville Ceramics
Adil Writer & Auroville Arts by Dhani Muniz
The art scene in Auroville is a weird and wonderful space. It arises and vanishes and arises again, like beautiful architecture emerging from a dense jungle now and then for a sly wink before being subsumed back into it.
For an older artist like sculptor and painter Adil Writer, the appeal lies especially in the radically different ways of artistic networking – so often an almost literary headache in big cities – which become possible in the small-town atmosphere of Auroville.
“We ceramic artists and potters have quite a tight community here; I think more so than the painters and architects, who are often very consumed with their own work and ideas. But the potters all seem to know and appreciate each other, and we still manage to teach each other new things, no matter how old we are.”