Material Poetics of Migration, solo exhibition, 2024; ceramic, clay, and textile installation; Meat Market, North Melbourne

Pilgrim Embodied 1, 2016 and 2017; ceramic; w45 x d45 x h40 cm; solo exhibition 2024; Meat Market, North Melbourne; Photography by Abhijit Pal (AP)

Material Poetics of Migration, solo exhibition 2024, ceramic, and textile installation; Meat Market, North Melbourne

Pilgrim Embodied 2, 2016 and 2017; ceramic (textile in porcelain clay with nylon fibre, stain, and dark stoneware clay); w45 x d45 x h15 cm; solo exhibition 2024; Meat Market, North Melbourne; Photography AP

Vistara and Tales Embodied 1, 2018 and 2020; ceramic, thread, clay; w32-29 x d2 x h22 cm and w23 x d8 x h35 cm; solo exhibition 2024; Meat Market, North Melbourne

Stories Embodied, 2020; ceramic (Paper clay, textile, thread, slip, stain, glaze, lustre); w5-17 x d4 x h1.5 cm (each); solo exhibition 2024; Meat Market, North Melbourne

A Message for Her, 2019; material artefacts from social engagement platform; ceramic, sari, and clay; solo exhibition 2024; Meat Market, North Melbourne, Photography AP

A Returning, 2024; installation in clay, ceramic, sand, digital projection on textile; Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA

Ancestral Calling 1, 2023; ceramic, rice flour, clay; w24 x d20 x h14cm; NCECA 2024 Multicultural Fellowship exhibition, The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Ancestral Calling 11, 2023; ceramic (terra cotta clay), red rice grains, clay; w25 x d23 x w8 cm; curated the group exhibition Materiality in Dialogue, Divisions Gallery, Pentridge, Coburg

Materiality in Dialogue, works by Elizabeth Burden (left), Karla Garcia (far right), collaborative work Varuni K and Vicky Cousenz (middle); curated the group exhibition, Divisions Gallery, Pentridge, Coburg 2021

Precious Armour_Tales Embodied 3, 2021; ceramic, shards; w45 x d45 x h34 cm; The Australian Ceramics Association Ceramix exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Art Museum, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales.

Tales Embodied 2 sleeve, 2021; ceramic (porcelain paper clay, slip, stain, glaze), w15 x d11 x h17 cm; The Australian Ceramics Association Ceramix exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Art Museum, Manly, NSW

Tales Embodied, 2021; ceramic installation, collaborative works of Varuni K and Kate Beynon; Ceramix, The Australian Ceramics Association Ceramix exhibition, Manly Art Gallery and Art Museum, Manly, NSW

Something happened here-Journey of 1000 Chai Cups, 2020; clay cups and shards; w185 x d85 x h7 cm; The Burdens of History NCECA 2020 Annual Exhibition, Glave Kocen Gallery, Virginia, USA

Traces of Rituals, 2020, ceramic, shards; w75 x d50 x h7 cm; NCECA 2020 Multicultural Fellowship exhibition, DAAP galleries, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Photography by DAAP Galleries.

Ritual of Shared Moments (detail), 2020; ceramic, tea leaves; w83 x d60 x h6.5 cm; NCECA 2020

Multicultural Fellowship exhibition, DAAP galleries, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Photography by DAAP Galleries.

Objects of Love exhibition, 2020; ceramic, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria. Photography by Michael Lam (ML)

Roaming of the Vivids and Ritual of Home, 2018 and 2016; ceramic (porcelain paper clay, fabric in slip); w26 x h19 x d2 cm and w25 x d25 x h15cm; Objects of Love exhibition, 2020, ceramic, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria. Photography by ML

A Message for Her, 2020, material artefacts from social engagement platform; ceramic, sari, pigment, and clay; Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA

The Vivid Vernacular Cosmopolitans, solo exhibition, 2018; Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria

Where the Vivids Gather (background) and Threshold of a Journey (foreground), 2017; ceramic; solo exhibition The Vivid Vernacular Cosmopolitans, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria.

Where the Vivids Gather, 2017; ceramic; w28 x d13 x h38 cm; solo exhibition The Vivid Vernacular Cosmopolitans, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria. Photography by JP

Where the Vivids Gather, 2017; ceramic; left w10 x d11 x h37 cm & right w11 x d11 x h21 cm; solo exhibition The Vivid Vernacular Cosmopolitans, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria. Photography by JP

Harvest of Kolam, 2017; ceramic; left w25 x d28 x h6 cm, right w18 x d11 x h5 cm; solo exhibition The Vivid Vernacular Cosmopolitans, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria. Photography by JP

Westbound, 2017; ceramic, rice, w72 x d40 x h11 cm; Yarra Valley Arts Yering Station Exhibition, Yering Station, Victoria

Kolam of a Journey (detail), 2016; ceramic installation; w180 x d250 x h30 cm; Anderson Ranch Art Centre, Colorado, USA. Photography by IE

Kolam of a Welcome Table, 2015; ceramic; w250 x d80 cm x h80 cm; Yarra Valley Arts_Yering Station Exhibition, Yarra Glen, Victoria 

Sangam of Belonging, solo exhibition, 2015; ceramic installations left h75 x w35 x d37cm & right h30 x w30 x d14cm, BHAC, Bundoora, Victoria

BeLonging_Homeland Dispersed, 2015; ceramic; w8 x d8 x h7 cm; Australian Ceramics Triennale, Canberra

Fabric of Sangam, 2014, ceramic; w29-33 x d2 x h21-23; Sangam of Belonging, 2015 solo exhibition, BHAC, Bundoora, Victoria. Photography by JD

Belonging (detail), 2014, ceramic; w75 x d25 x h6 cm; Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize, Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria. Photography by JD

Vivid Homeland, 2013; ceramic; w16 x d19 x h25 cm; 2013 Yarra Valley Arts_Yering Station Exhibition, Yarra Glen, Victoria. Photography by JD

A Returning, 2025; A Returning: Visual Poem © Varuni Kanagasundaram,  https://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00110_1

A Message for Her, 2019; composite installations of material artefacts from social engagement platform; SFAI, New Mexico, USA

Journey of 1000 Chai Cups, 2018; community making, installation of terracotta clay cups; Fawkner Festa, MoreArt 2018, CB Smith Reserve, Merri-Bek Shire, Melbourne.

Journey of 1000 Chai Cups, 2018; ritual of Chai and community participating; Fawkner Festa, MoreArt 2018, CB Smith Reserve, Merri-Bek Shire, Melbourne.

Journey of 1000 Chai Cups, 2018; creative encounter as performance, terracotta clay cups, shards, bark; MoreArt 2018, Fawkner Cemetery, Merri-Bek Shire, Melbourne.

Ritual She Draws, 2018; performance, ceramic, shards, textile; h7 x w40 x d40 cm, solo exhibition The Vivid Vernacular Cosmopolitans, Glen Eira City Council gallery, Victoria.

Kolam_A Welcome Beneath Your Feet, 2017; performance, clay, ceramic vessel, material traces as encounter; RMIT Artland and MoreArt Festival, RMIT University Brunswick campus, Victoria

Gestures Remembered, 2024; creative participation; clay, hessian, paper, vessel, materials for making, sari; SFAI, New Mexico, USA

Material Poetics of Diaspora, 2024; Performative drawing; clay, sand, paper, vessel; SFAI, New Mexico, USA

Message in Material Gesture, 2024; participatory making in clay, material artefacts (detail, above) from participatory activity (below); clay, bark; solo exhibition Material Poetics of Migration; Meat Market, North Melbourne, Victoria

Threshold Crossings, drawing activity with participants (above), 2022; installation of interlinked collective drawings (below), PlaceLab RMIT residency; clay slip, bark, pigment, materials of natural surroundings; social housing complex day centre, Brunswick, Melbourne.

Kolam_Messages that Link Us, 2020—2021; community creating responses to public art project; clay slip, pigments, flora, eucalyptus bark, tools; Merri-Bek Shire, Melbourne.

Kolam_Messages that Link Us, 2020-2021; public art installation in exhibition; drawings on eucalyptus bark; Press Against Time Exhibition, Divisions Gallery, Pentridge, Coburg, Melbourne.

A Cup Across the Fence, participatory public art project, 2020; images and sounds of action on terracotta Chai cups, shards; © Varuni K; A Cup Across the Fence_Raw sound recordings and A Cup Across the Fence_new composition; Penrith City Council, NSW. New composition in collaboration with sound artist Lucy Janssen

A Message for Her, 2019; performance and making during social engagement platform; SFAI, New Mexico, USA