ABOUT
Poulami is a textile and material designer whose practice moves between craft, biodesign and cultural storytelling.
Coming from a background in luxury fashion and couture, her work has gradually shifted towards understanding how materials perform, behave and carry meaning. She is drawn to what is routinely discarded — organic waste, everyday by-products, materials that hold traces of labour, culture and memory. Working with biomatter and natural processes, she develops material systems that sit between craft and experimentation, shaped by her upbringing in Bengal.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“My practice explores how materials from everyday life can be reused and reworked through processes of care… This practice is slow, hands-on, and grounded in curiosity about what materials already know.”
SELECTED CV
2026Finalist, Green Concept Award (EU) — material-led textile practice
2026Nominated, Emerging Talent Award — Surface Design Show, London
2024–nowFragments from a Shrinking Shore — ongoing material research
2025Layers of Passage — blossomyards × reedsmith, with Vincy Senthil Kumar
2024–25MA Sustainable Textile Design — Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
2014–18BA (Hons) Textile Design — National Institute of Fashion Technology, India
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