Sarban Chowdhury is a ceramist, designer & educator from India. His practice of working with clay is an everyday learning process where he relates to coping with minor and major failures in life. Ceramics as a medium teaches him to gaze at life from a different standpoint. Sarban’s research explores around ecosystem centric values , geopolitical influences and psychoanalysis of the human mind in relation to their surrounding factors . Everything that he examines, observes and experiences around him somehow seeps into his subconscious mind and eventually reflects in his work. He has been invited to artist residency programs at Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue in Jingdezhen China, 54th International Ceramic Sculpture Symposium in Boleslawiec Poland, International Wood firing Ceramic Symposium in Gavrilov Russia, Art Ichol in Maihar, Piramal Art Foundation in Mumbai, Museum of Goa, Uttarayan Art Foundation in Vadodara etc. He currently works as an Assistant Professor in Fashion & Lifestyle Accessories at National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT).