Artspace
Atelier Lālmitti’s founders, Reyaz Badaruddin and Élodie Alexandre, pursue their own personal art practice in ceramics.
Welcome to Artspace, a gallery where you can browse through a curated selection of artworks by Reyaz Badaruddin and Élodie Alexandre.
Reyaz Badaruddin
Reyaz Badaruddin is an Indian ceramic artist currently living and working in Himachal Pradesh. He has curated and participated in several national and international shows and residencies.
He graduated in Ceramic Design from Banaras Hindu University in 2000. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious Charles Wallace Fellowship to complete an MA attachment in ceramics at Cardiff School of Art and Design, UK. He is a recipient of two eminent Fellowships by the government of India.
His work keeps evolving to reflect a wide range of interests which mix social and aesthetics considerations. His pieces are in the collection of renowned art institutions such as the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Latvia and the FULE International Ceramic Museum in China, and various other public and private collections.
Élodie Alexandre
Originally from France, she lived for many years in the UK where she joined Cardiff School of Art and Design in Wales in 2008. She holds a BA and an MA in Ceramics from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. Her work was selected for the British Ceramics Biennial in 2011 and for the Biennial of Ceramics in Belgium in 2015.
Further to her MA, her degree show installation received a Rising Stars award and was subsequently exhibited in and around London in 2014. She was invited to exhibit at the 2016 Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, Indonesia. In 2018, she was selected to participate in the first edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale in Jaipur.
