Sekar Puti Sidhiawati
Sekarputi Sidhiawati is a visual artist who raises stories about the empowerment of women in domestic and intersection culture to give them and herself the drive to continue working. She is mainly working with ceramic, the material that highly represents house and women in general.
She was born in Jakarta 1986. Taking formal education 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, in 2018 she moved to Bali to expand her ceramic studio business. With woman related issues, Puti had been a finalist of several fine art awards such as the Soemardja Art Award (2010) and the Bandung Contemporary Art Award 2013. She had join several prestigious exhibition include 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 Knight Gallery Australia (2018); Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljublana-Slovenia (2019), Indonesia Calling, 16Albermerle, Sydney (2020). Her second solo exhibition, titled ‘Your Existence Gives me hope’ (2019) was at Uma Seminyak.
PENYINTAS
BODY, FREEDOM AND AWARENESS
16 November 2022 - 16 January 2023
On Women, Power and Traditions #3
BIASA Art is located on
Jalan Raya Seminyak 34, Seminyak, Bali
Jalan Raya Sanggingan, Ubud, Bali
For more information about current exhibition, please contact art@biasagroup.com