Kuldeep Malhi
My work draws from my mix of cultural experiences, east-meeting west.
I want to imbue eastern eroticism and sensuality within my iconography; it is my intention to introduce these cross-cultural references and apparent paradoxes into private and public spaces. Currently my work responds to the vertical planes within architectural spaces. My work is also about tactility and touch, visually and compositionally it can be considered as an image or composition like a three-dimensional painting.
The glazes I have developed for both have a subtle range of hue that graduates in colour to emphasise the nature, mood and character of the work. The potential scale of my work lends itself to commissions as well as exhibition pieces
Born 1968, UK
Education
2005 MA (Ceramics & Glass) Royal College of Art
2002 BA (3D Design in Ceramics) University of Wolverhampton
1999 Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art and Design. University of Central England in Birmingham
Recent exhibitions
2007 Glasgow Art Fair Scotland
FORM Art Fair Olympia London
Art Miami, USA
2006 The Sesame Salon, London
New Members 2006 exhibition Contemporary Applied Arts, London
Affordable Art Fair, London
Origin, The London Craft Fair, London
Sense & Sensuality, Bankside Gallery, London
New Designers (One Year On) Business Design Centre.
Setting Out 2006. Contemporary Ceramics. London.
2005 Innovation at the RCA. Royal College of Art.
Heal’s Discovers. Heal’s Tottenham Court Road. London.
Commissions
2005 Heal’s Tottenham Court Road London
2006 FT2 Ltd
2006 Michael Rasser. Owner of MichaelJohn Hair Salon, Mayfair. London
Publications
BREAKING THE MOULD “new approaches to ceramics”
Black dog publishing April 2007 pages 120 to 121
DIF Magazine (Portugal)
February 2007 issue. Page 14
SALON Magazine (Ukraine)
December 2006 to January issue. Page 48