Shirley is a Ceramic Artist and Industrial designer based in New Delhi, India. She creates quirky hand crafted works in porcelain and stoneware with a sense of humour. Her work often celebrates imperfections and irregularity of the human hand thus the name Irregular Beauty.
A graduate of NID Ahmedabad, Shirley Having grown up without any kind of exposure to television or internet, Bhatnagar had her first brush with international cinema during her first year of college in 1992. Soaking in the works of Jean-Luc Godard and Truffaut led her to express much of it in her own art later on. Shirley loves switching lanes to collaborate with designers and to engage with diverse practices and themes. Likewise, approach to her ceramic work often weaves in parallel processes, bringing in unexpected influences.