Poojitha Ravi Menon is an Indian-born, Malaysia-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores psycho-social landscapes where empowerment and subjugation coexist.

Trained in glass painting and Indian traditional arts, her journey spans oils, abstract acrylics, and batik, before finding its most direct expression in clay. Since 2019, she has worked primarily with clay’s visceral intimacy and tactile presence to create surreal, psychologically charged sculptures.
Drawing from Indian and Southeast Asian mythologies intertwined with personal memory, her work engages themes of identity, motherhood, and power. Her forms hold tension rather than resolve it — transforming vulnerability into acts of resistance through material, gesture, and presence.
Artist Statement
According to the Upanishads (ancient Indian texts), the human mind is like two birds sitting on a branch. One of the birds is eating the fruit of the tree while the other merely watches. This analogy became a foundation in my practice as I navigate the space between observing and experiencing. Despite already working with oils, I intuitively reached for clay as a primary form of artistic expression. Sculpting with clay became a liberating, immersive and intensively physical process, from the first throw to the final firing. Elements of sound, space, structure and movement inform the final artwork. Employing traditional methods of hand coiling, slab work and pinching, my sculptural works probe accepted societal norms of how communities are perceived and are visual social commentaries represented as clay human bodies, especially heads.
In parallel, my oil paintings use layered, scraped and reworked surfaces to build surreal, figurative bodies that hold similar tensions between inner voice and outer gaze.
Increasingly, I am interested in bringing these processes together: combining ceramic elements with painted surfaces, or allowing oil and clay to occupy the same spatial field, so that the weight of sculpture and the fluidity of paint can speak to each other within a single, expanded body of work.
Selected Exhibitions
• Talking Heads — Solo Exhibition, Malaysia (2023)
• Tonyraka Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (2025)
• Khontemporary × Artvoice, Khon Kaen, Thailand (2025)
• Maybank Women Exhibition RRWARR, Malaysia (2023)
• Cult Gallery, Malaysia (2023–2025)