Gerda Frömel

KAASH Programme 2023

Now that KAASH is developing its own momentum it is appropriate to draft the following outline structure for KAASH over the next 5 years.

Activities

Identify the 5 projects – skills and materials– for the next 5 years that will be the focus of all KAASH’s activities:

Leather: puppetry, light and footwear,
Surface Art in transition – current residency
Paper: forms of production and the Art of the Miniature to day
Stone – and its many functional forms
The Book

Each of these themes will be the umbrella for a specific agenda of research and development appropriate to the needs of the skill and materials. The outcome will be conference / seminar engaging the key artisans and stakeholders of that field. In addition will be an exhibition[s] displaying the outcome of the interaction with the skill, workshops and demonstrations, conference papers and publications, as well as a digital record of all that took place.

Gerda Frömel

Drawings

Prints

Sculpture

Exhibition, 2026

Venue : Mount Venus Nursery, Dublin
Team : Weft Foundation

Get The Brochure

Presenting a new series of Mata ni Pachhedi paintings in conjunction with a collection of contemporary products.

Get The Brochure

Gerda Frömel (1931–1975) was one of the most rigorous abstract artists working in Ireland in the postwar period. Working fluidly between drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, her practice was marked by an extraordinary commitment to form precise, meditative, and deeply attentive.

Her drawings explore the quiet relationship between geometry, nature, and inner contemplation, often reducing complex ideas to simple, elegant forms. In her hands, geometry becomes something searching and alive where line becomes form, and form becomes a way of seeing.

Her practice reflects a lifelong engagement with observation and craft, producing images that feel both architectural and organic. Subtle and precise, her works invite a slower encounter, one that rewards careful looking.

This exhibition brings together a selection of works spanning decades of her artistic practice, including previously unseen drawings.

Presented by WEFT Foundation at Mount Venus Nursery, it is an opportunity to encounter Frömel's work in an intimate and fitting setting.

KAASH Partnerships

Foster engagement with leading artisan communities and design and cultural institutions in India and abroad to identify research gaps and training needs and promote the sharing of knowledge in the creative field.

Currently KAASH is liaising with the following institutions:

NID, Ahmedabad.
Museum Rietberg, Zurich
Evoke, London.
Africa – maker co-operatives and institutions? [ To be identified ]

KAASH People

Director
Sridhar Poddar
Board of Trustees
Prashant Prakash, Sridhar Poddar

Implementation:
Education
Arthur Duff

Design
Harsh Bhavsar

Outreach + Business Development
Manju S Rajan

Media and Operations Management
Keerthi Shastri

Execution
Mayank + Chandan + Ankit

Carpentry
Champa Lal

Electrician
Sonu

Housekeeping
Rajabapu

Driver
Manjuswami

Fellows

Research Associates

KAASH Knowledge platforms

The Indian Sub-Continent
Identify existing knowledge hubs and resource centres across the country. Add significant and meaningful databases of experience and resources developed at KAASH.
The Indo-African Project
The links between India and Africa are ancient, Particularly in the region of East Africa. Commerce and culture are intertwined to this day. This project focuses on making creative connections at the level of practice and institutions. Already connections have been made with potters in various parts of Africa.
Asia and Beyond - KAASH Hub for Inter-Asia ResearchUnderstanding the extent to which materials and skills are interconnected across the region. Our long-term plan is to engage with creative challenges that can be addressed by collaborative teams of practitioners and scholars from multiple disciplines across the region.

KAASH is setting up several collaborations across Asia and beyond with a view to conducting collaborative research, joint development of Inter-Asia issues as well as offering residencies to skilled people from elsewhere. Compiling data-bases.

KAASH Products and Sales

A Business model is being drafted to manage the development of retail opportunities for the Foundation in order to generate income that will sustain the work being carried out.