Mitakshara Chaudhary
Jammu & Kashmir
Mitakshara Chaudhary is an architect and designer from India, currently based in London, who works primarily as an emerging ceramic and glass artist. Her practice explores the shifting boundaries between art and architecture, using materiality to investigate how we perceive, inhabit, and remember space. Driven by a fascination with dualities, her layered, textured forms reflect on impermanence and resilience. She looks forward to creating immersive, large-scale installations that transform entire architectural spaces using mixed media.
Artist Interview
Q: Can you remember the moment when art stopped being just a hobby and started to feel like something more meaningful?
A: I was always drawn towards making things. Art has always been a way for me to explore curiosity and express myself, but the turning point came during my architectural studies, when I realised how deeply materials, space, and memory could shape experiences and emotions. It was then, working late in the studio and discovering the transformative tactility of materials, that is when art shifted from a hobby to a meaningful pursuit, a way for me to ask questions, ideate my thoughts, and connect with other people.
Q: What does the beginning of your creative process look like? Do you start with a clear vision, or let your work lead the way?
A: The beginning of my creative process is often intuitive and exploratory rather than fixed. I usually start with a feeling, a fragment of a memory, or a material that intrigues me, sometimes inspired by the tactile qualities of glass or ceramics, or by the way light interacts with a surface. While I might have a loose concept or question in mind, I allow the process of making, testing materials, sketching, and hands-on experimentation to take the lead. This openness lets unexpected ideas emerge, often leading the work in directions I never knew existed. I always call my practice a bit of a patch work, a combination of multiple interactions, learnings and experimentation.
Q: Has there been a learning experience in your career, big or small, that’s deeply influenced the way you create today?