PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO
My work moves between object and body, forms that feel familiar, but not fixed.
Working with ceramics and wood, I create sculptural and wall-based pieces that hold a sense of instability. Some appear to lean, fold, or almost collapse, as if in the process of becoming something else.
I’m drawn to moments where forms shift from open to held, covered, partially enclosed, or interrupted. These gestures don’t fully hide what’s there, but they change how it can be seen, creating a distance between presence and access.
The work is shaped by movement and transition between places, identities, and states of being. It reflects a need to hold, to support, and to stay intact while something is still forming.
I’m interested in that in-between space—where something is still present, still becoming, and not yet fully defined.
Soft Armour
(Ongoing body of work)
The tension between visibility and protection, between exposure and care, sits at the center of the work.
Pooja Pawaskar
Artist & Sculptor
POOJA PAWASKAR
Pooja Pawaskar is an Indian-born Canadian artist based in Arles, France. Working across sculpture, ceramics, and drawing, her practice explores intimacy, visibility, and the emotional landscapes we carry within us.
Influenced by experiences of migration and living across cultures, Pawaskar creates abstract forms that investigate the relationship between body, memory, and identity. Through wood and clay, she explores themes of vulnerability, resilience, and transformation, often working within the space between concealment and revelation.
Pawaskar holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Mumbai University and a Master's degree in Furniture Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at NYCxDESIGN, the London Festival of Architecture, and DesignTO. In 2025, she completed an artist residency at SCAD Lacoste, France, and is currently based in Arles, where she continues to develop her sculptural practice.
Exhibitions
SOLO Exhibit, France
DUO EXHIBIT, Conversations w/ TREES
Upon further reflection
THE HEART OF ART
Artist Statement
I am an Indian-born Canadian artist based in Arles, France, working primarily in sculpture, drawing, and ceramics.
My practice explores intimacy, visibility, and the emotional landscapes we carry within us. Shaped by experiences of migration and living across cultures, I am interested in how bodies hold memory, desire, vulnerability, and inherited ways of being.
Working through abstraction, I create forms that evoke the body without fully describing it. Whether carved in wood or shaped in clay, my sculptures inhabit the space between concealment and revelation, protection and exposure. I am drawn to gestures of covering, enclosing, and partially revealing, questioning what we choose to share, what we hide, and how these choices shape our relationships with ourselves and others.
Wood and ceramics offer distinct yet interconnected languages within my practice. Wood, with its knots, cracks, and grain, speaks to resilience and transformation. Clay allows me to explore softness, containment, and the body as vessel. Together, these materials become a means of investigating how personal and collective experiences are carried, remembered, and made visible.
Ultimately, my work invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of becoming: how we learn to take up space, reveal ourselves, and belong.
