???My Teddy is called Saap-Sidi Teddy. Stuffed toys and board games are what childhood is made of. The board game squares also form a patch work on the bear making it look soft and huggable, through the ups and downs of life as the game represents.???
Madhavi Subramanian Born in Mumbai, Madhvi Subrahmanian was trained under Ray Meeker at the Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry, India. She attained her Masters degree in Fine Arts from the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, Texas where she studied with Peter Beasecker. In 2002, she went to England under a British Council scholarship and worked briefly with Kate Malone. Madhvi has also had the opportunity to study with Warren Mckenzie, Val Cushing, William Daley and others.
She has also participated in several artist-in-residence programs- such as FLICAM -FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums (Fuping,China), Watershed (Maine USA), Golden Bridge Pottery (Pondicherry, India) and The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan). Her works have been published in various international magazines like Ceramic Art and Perception and Ceramics Monthly and in books titled Paper Clay by Rossett Gault, Smoke firing by Jane Perryman and Contemporary Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper. Madhvi has had several solo shows in galleries like Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai, Indigo Blue Art in Singapore and Lacoste Gallery in MA, USA. She has participated in group exhibitions in India, USA, Taiwan, Korea, Spain etc. Her works are found in several private and public collections such as Mumbai Airport Authority in India, JSW foundation in India, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan, India Ceramic Museum in China and Nparks, Singapore.
An artist, writer and curator, Madhvi has lived in India, USA, Germany and currently lives and works in Singapore.
About WISH - A – TEDDY
We’re delighted to present “WISH-A-TEDDY”: a collection of hand-painted teddy bears by renowned Indian artists and designers in collaboration with Make-A-Wish Foundation®.
These beautifully hand-painted teddies have been created by Paresh Maity, Baiju Parthan, GR Iranna, Jayasri Burman, Nilofer Suleman, Vibha Galhotra, George Martin, Manil & Rohit Gupta, Seema Kohli, Valay Shende and many others, and designers like Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla, Sabyasachi, Anamika Khanna and Maheka Mirpuri, these teddies surely make for collectors’ items.
Make-A-Wish Foundation® of India is a non-profit organization dedicated to granting the most cherished wish of children aged 3 -18, living with life-threatening illnesses, irrespective of their socio-economic status, caste, race or religion. It has branches in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune, and is headquartered in Mumbai. The Foundation conducted its first ever fundraiser in India, "WISH - A - TEDDY", earlier this April at the Palladium Hotel, Mumbai. This event was planned to celebrate World Wish Day – a global day of wish granting which falls on 29th April, 2014.
The works in the present collection are the works which were part of this exhibition.
The teddy bear is a symbol of childhood and joy, and it also makes for an endearing sculpture that brings on a smile, across all age groups.