Nato Eristavi, a Georgian artist and ceramicist, was born in Tbilisi in 1972. From 1989 to 1994, she studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. From 2006 to 2013, she was a visiting lecturer at the Academy. From 1999 to 2015, she headed a children’s ceramic modelling and drawing workshop. In 2007, she co-founded the “Clay Office” of the Georgian Ceramic Art and Crafts Foundation; in 2013, she founded the Georgian porcelain creative workshop “White Studio”; and in 2014, she founded the first Georgian ceramics centre and gallery “Workshop”.

Since the 2000s, she has participated in local and international exhibitions, ceramic symposia, and conferences. Her activities also include curating and organizing ceramic festivals, contributing to the development and promotion of contemporary ceramic practice in Georgia.

The main field of Eristavi’s artistic practice is ceramic sculpture. For her, clay is not only a material but also a means of expressing artistic thought and emotion. In the creative process, clay combines natural forces, human emotion, and energy, transforming them into tangible artistic form.

Selected Works:
“Gargoyles” series;
“Eye”  from the “Portal” series;
“Working Process”;
“Lake Lopota”  an installation dedicated to the memory of Goga Maisuradze;
“Bacchus”.