Subject to Change without Notice - 2004

Ray Meeker

Born July 4, 1944, NewYork City, U.S.A. 1962-65 Pepperdine College. Studied art on an athletic scholarship for basketball. 1965-70 University of Southern California. Four years ofArchitecture School. BFA in ceramics. 1971 Came to India. Founded Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry with wife Deborah Smith, producing a varied line of wheel- thrown stoneware pottery. Runs training program for students fromall parts of India. SelectedArchitecture/Construction 1997-99 Fire-stabilized shrine for Nrityagramdance community, Bangalore. 1995 Six low cost fire-stabilizedmud houses for the Volontariat, Pondicherry. 1994 Began 50 fire-stabilizedmud houses for SalemDRDA, Tamil Nadu. Only six houses were fired and one finished. 1993 Design forAuberge Hotels, Pondicherry. 1992 Staff housing/office/lab/security for MinotaAquatech Ltd., a subsidiary of The Indian Tobacco Corporation, Tuticorin. Fire-stabilized construction. 1990 Satyajit/Chintan house, fire-stabilizedmud inAuroville. 1991 Demonstrated fire-stabilized construction for low cost housing atAuroville Information and Reception Center. 1988 Built Agni Jata. First fire-stabilized mud house in India for a very courageous client inAuroville. Produced a 30 minute video on the process. 1985-87 First experiments in fire-stabilizedmud building. Exhibitions/Awards 2004 Subject to Change without Notice . Installation at India Habitat Center with Peter Nagy, NatureMorte, NewDelhi. 2001 Kurukshetra . Exhibition of sculpture and pottery with Peter Nagy, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi. 2000 Perennial Earth, Quickening Fire. Exhibition of stoneware at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai. 1999 The video Agni Jata wins Bronze medal at the Ceramics Millennium, Amsterdam. 1998 Fourteen Potters. Studio potters exhibtion, Cymroza Gallery, Mumbai. 1996 First one-person show of ceramics, Eicher Gallery, New Delhi. 1985 Exhibition of salt-glazed ceramics with Dutch artist Johnny Rolf at the Adyar Gate Hotel, Chennai. 1980-83 All India Studio Potters Exhibition, New Delhi.

Lectures/Workshops/Consultancy 2003 NCECA. Presentation on Indian ceramics with Deborah Smith and Jane Perryman.