Colour, multiplicity and abstraction interplay gracefully in the practice of Indian-Australian artist Minaal Lawn. Rooted in deep visual history, her work brings ceramic forms into dialogue with memory and personal identity. Drawing on object symbolism, Hindu worship culture, and the aesthetics of ritual, she creates intimate, autobiographical work.
Minaal dissolves the edges of cultural distinctions through abstraction, reflecting her lived experience of hybridity. Moving with ambiguity rather than resolution, her work embraces multiplicity — gesturing toward an elemental sense of being that sits beneath inherited categories. As a first-generation Australian of Indian descent living on Dja Dja Wurrung Country (Glenlyon) in Central Victoria, she traces the shifting intersections of culture, memory, and place.
Minaal has held institutional solo shows at the Art Gallery of Ballarat (2022), Castlemaine Art Museum (2021). Commercial solo shows at Stockroom (Kyneton 2023), Craft Victoria (2020), Craft Contemporary (Castlemaine, 2020), ArtBox (Merricks, 2019) among others.
Selected group shows include Colour Working / Working Colour (Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery 2025) Mining Memory (La Trobe Project Space 2024, ARI Pop Gallery (2024), Craft Victoria (2023), NGV Melbourne Design Week (Verdant 2024, Flack Studio presentation Open Table 2023, Future Inheritance 2021), CLAD Gallery (Bendigo, 2020) and Daine Singer (Fitzroy, 2019) among others.
Minaal is a Footscray Art Prize (2023), Muswellbrook Art Prize (2022) Clunes Ceramic Awards (2019), The Du Rietz Art Awards (2019), The Wyndham Art Prize (2019), Saint Cloche Gallery (Little Things Art Prize 2018) awards finalist.
In addition to her exhibition practice, she has collaborated with interior design studios, Danielle Brustman (2023), creative director Marsha Golemac (2021), commissioned by Jardan (2022), fashion brands Radical Yes (2019, 2018) Nelson Made (2018).
