Sekarputi Sidhiawati - Beacon of Hope

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Sekarputi Sidhiawati - Beacon of Hope

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TITLE: Beacon of Hope

YEAR: 2023

MEDIUM: 14 pcs of ceramic slab stoneware, underglaze, luster, wire

SIZE: 80 × 100 cm (approx.)

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Sekarputi Sidhiawati (b. 1986, Jakarta) is a visual artist who creates stories about the empowerment of women in the domestic setting and at the intersection of culture. She works primarily with ceramic, a material that is often associated with the home and women in general. 

Her formal education was at the Faculty of Art and Design ITB-Ceramic Art studio. She is now known as the founder of the studio Arta Derau, while consistently working in the art world. After working in Bandung for a time, she moved to Bali to expand her ceramic studio business. With her works that are centered around issues related to women, Puti has been a finalist in several fine art awards such as the Soemardja Art Award (2010) and the Bandung Contemporary Art Award (2013). She has joined several prestigious exhibitions including the Jakarta Contemporary Ceramic Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia (2014); Temperature Affect, Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics Jakarta (2017); Manifesto, National Gallery of Indonesia (2017); Termasuk, Darren KnightGallery Australia (2018); Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljublana, Slovenia (2019). The Home Inside Our Mind is her second solo exhibition and her first exhibition in Malaysia.