Guyana SPEAKS - Celebrating creativity in Guyana and the diaspora

JAY MISTRY

Jay Mistry is a ceramic artist whose heritage is from an Indian caste of potters, the Kumbhar. She makes sculptural and functional forms using hand-building and slip-casting techniques that celebrate the rawness and materiality of the clay, and provide a canvas for expression through texture or print. She is interested in how authority functions within society and how power shapes specific knowledge about places, landscapes and objects. She likes to use narration, both in the visual representation of forms and through words and print, to tell a story that counters the accepted truth. Her goal is to challenge the discourses that cause people to think and act in certain ways, using my personal experiences as a woman, of Asian descent, environmentalist and activist academic, as a vehicle for political assertion.

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Email: jayceramics@myphone.coop