Artist Statement/ Biography

Ravi engages with the world in a way that is often surprising: shadows have thickness, and reflections go all the way back to the sun. He consistently seeks understanding of the things he encounters, with a particular interest in modes of representation for these phenomena. Through the processes of making, unmaking and remaking, he attempts to recontextualise the rhythms and sparkles that he sees, offering opportunity to experience the encounters from new perspectives. He employs multiple strategies to accomplish this, including the illustration of distinctions and otherness via remediation and reformation and the simultaneous use of concealment and revelation. Many works address notions of inclusion and exclusion, whilst containing a strict logic or system and a resultant ritualistic element.

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Ravi Avasti is an Australian artist, born and raised in the UK by his Welsh mother and Indian father. His work spans installation, sculpture and the expanded field of drawing. Ravi completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia in 2018. He was one of eleven commissioned artists invited to produce significant new work for the Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial 2022, was shortlisted for the 2019 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship, and was awarded the 2018 Fiona Myer White Story Residency for his work in the Victorian College of the Arts Masters exhibition. Ravi lives and works in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. < BACK