Ray Meeker
Born 1944 New York City, U.S.A.
Education: 1962-65 BFA in Ceramics Pepperdine College University of Southern California, 4 years of Architecture School
Architectural Projects
Fire-stabilized shrine for Nrityagram dance community, Bangalore 1999-97
Six low-cost fire-stabilized mud houses for the Volontariat, Pondicherry 1995
Design for Auberge Hotels, Pondicherry1993
Staff housing/office/lab/security for Minota Aquatech Ltd., a subsidiary of The Indian Tobacco
Corporation , Tuticorin. Fire-stabilized construction 1992
Satyajit/Chintan house, fire-stabilized mud in Auroville 1990
Demonstrated fire-stabilzed construction for low-cost housing at Auroville Information and
Reception Centre 1991
Built "Agni Jata". First fire-stabilized mud house for a very courageous client in
Auroville, India. Produced a 30 minute video on the process 1988
First experiments in "Fire Stabilized Mud Building" 1985-87
Awards
Award for "Best Solo Show of the Year 2004", India Habitat Centre 2005
Ardharanishwara. Exhibition of 25 artists at the Tao Art Gallery. Mumbai 2005
Subject to Change without Notice. Installation at India Habitat Center with Peter Nagy, Nature Morte, New Delhi 2004
Kurukshetra. An exhibition of sculpture and pottery with Peter Nagy, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi 2001
Perennial Earth, Quickening Fire, an Exhibition of Stoneware at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai 2000
The video Agni Jata wins Bronze medal at the Ceramics Millennium, Amsterdam 1999
Studio Potters Exhibtion. Fourteen potters, Cymroza Gallery, Mumbai 1998
First one person show of ceramics at the Eicher Gallery, New Delhi 1996
Exhibition of salt-glazed ceramics with Dutch artist Johnny Rolf at the Adyar Gate
Hotel, Madras 1985
All India Studio Potter Exhibition, New Delhi 1980-83
Lectures / Workshops / Consultancy
Verge Conference. Brisbane, Australia. Two presentations. "Thirty-five Years with Indian Clay" and "Fired Houses" 2006
NCECA. Presentation on Indian Ceramics with Deborah Smith and Jane Perryman 2003
Lecture, Developing a Fired Building Technology, for "Enduring Immage. Treasures from the British Museum" 1998
Conducted one month workshop for village potters from the Puddokottai / Tanjavur area of Tamil Nadu for the Madras Craft Foundation 1991
Lecture on fire-stabilized construction at Maryland Art Institute, Hunter College, The
Aga Khan Foudation, M.I.T., Southern California Institute of Architecture, Hartnell
College, Monterey Peninsula College, HUDCO, New Delhi 1990
Six weeks as design consultant to GTZ's Ceramic Promotion Project, Nepal 1989
Lecture on fired building process at the International Conference on Mud Architecture, (MUD MUD), Trivandrum 1986
One month as design consultant to GTZ's Ceramic Promotion Project, Nepal
Selected Bibliography
Desai, Prajna, Firing the Immagination, The Art News Magazine of India, Vol. lll, Issue lll, 1998 Perryman, Jane, Houses on Fire, Ceramic Review, 1996
Grewal, Royina, The Potter Architect, Inside/Outside, 1993
T. Manivanan, The Baked Houses of Pondicherry, Indian Express, 1991
Kundoo, Anupama, Agni Jata, Indian Architect and Builder, 1990
Published Articles
Thirty-five Years with Indian Clay. Ceramic Art and Perception, 2006
Save the rural potter... and all that, The Econonic Times, 1992
Mud. Towards a Fire-stabilized Mud Building Technology, Architecture & Design, 1991
Kiln Technology. A Demonstration and a Challenge, Indian Architect and Builder, 1990