Biography
Malcolm Carder, aka Swami Anand Yatri (b. 1936) studied at Kingston College of Art (1955–9) and then worked as a freelance graphic designer. He lectured at Plymouth College of Art (1961-64) and taught constructivist sculpture at Farnham School of Art (1964-66). In 1967 Carder took up a research fellowship in visual communications (media) at Portsmouth School of Architecture. He received a commission for the British Pavilion, Expo ’67, in Montreal. Between 1969–71 Carder worked on exhibitions with Nigel Greenwood, London; Hans Meyer, Krefeld; Hayward Gallery; and Wilfried Reckermann, Koln. Carder then worked for Theo Crosby at Pentagram on the Arts Council exhibition and book The Environment Game, where his assistant again was the artist Judy Clark.
Carder’s own mixed shows included Constructions at Axiom Gallery (1966); Unit-Series-Progression, Arts Council, Cambridge (1967); L’Art Vivant, Fondation Maeght, France, and Prospect ’68, Düsseldorf (both 1968); and Plans & Projects as Art, Kunsthalle, Berne and Munich (1969). He had a solo exhibition at Axiom, 1968. In 1974 Carder went with Judy Clark to India and he became involved with the teacher Baghwan Shree Rajneesh and lived at the ashram at Poona, Maharashtra, until about 1981. When the ashram moved to Oregon in that year Carder, then called Swami Anand Yatri, went briefly to London before going on to Oregon. He was involved in the production of books documenting lectures by Rajneesh published by Osho International (Rajneesh was latterly known as Osho by his followers), which had offices in London. In 1996 Yatri declared that “Malcolm Carder no longer exists. He is no longer a sculptor.” Carder’s work, latterly sold by Nigel Greenwood, is held by Arts Council, Tate Gallery, Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, and MIMA as well several American collections.
