About

In 2019 Anoma exhibited at the European Cultural Centre at the Palazzo Bembo during the 58th Venice Biennale and in 2016 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery. International solo shows include those in Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, Maldives, Dubai and London.

Anoma studied and worked in the UK for three decades as a designer and artist and now divides her time between London and Sri Lanka where her studio is now based. Recent exhibitions combine poetry and science to explore sustainability and the environment. Often suggestive and poetic in appeal, works range from mixed media paintings on canvas and paper to iPad and digital art, video and sculpture installations. They invite multiple interpretations, and are abstract reflections upon isolation, transformation, reconciliation, healing and the freedom of the human spirit.

‘Human insecurities, greed and conflicts blur the boundaries between reason and passion and explode the tensions that exist within all of us. We create and destroy in our search for immortality, never accepting life’s unalterable fact – impermanence.’

Anoma currently works exclusively on her paintings and installations. Creating images that depict man’s existential anxieties, contemporary concerns about the human condition and internal tussle with his nature and his fellow man. The works are layered and dense, exploring the relationship between surface and depth and that that is sought and found through destruction and loss. Her technique of layering and juxtaposition of elemental content also mirrors the interplay between time and nature. Boats, rivers, crevices, figures and pathways are both summoned up and woven into the background, fractured, left to emerge on longer investigation.

2022 Alliance Francaise, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2020 Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
2016 Elysium Collection, Galle, Sri Lanka
2013 The Noble sage collection, London, UK
2012 Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2012 Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2012 Dutch Hospital, The Fort, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2012 Fort Printers, Galle, Sri Lanka 2010 Wright & Teague, Mayfair, London, UK
2009 One&Only, Reethi Rah, Maldives
2007 The British Residence, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2007 The Printers, Galle, Sri Lanka
2006 The National Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2005 Stella Downer Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004 Paradise Road Galleries, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2002 Havelock Place Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2002 Paradise Road Galleries, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2002 Art Heritage, New Delhi, India
1999 Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1993 Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2019 John Keells Foundation
2019 Cinnamon Life
2019 Ceylon Tea
2019 Acadamy of Design
2019 National Lotteries Board
2019 Etihad Airways
2016 Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust
2016 DIMO
2012 HSBC
2012 Sri Lankan Airlines
2012 Anim8
2010 Sri Lankan Airlines
2010 Sri Lanka Tourist Board
2010 MihinLanka
2009 Atlas
2009 Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation

2007 Siedles Ltd
2007 Equal Ground … Women of the Year
2006 Deutsche Bank
2006 Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation
2006 Brandix Lanka LTD
2006 The Asia Foundation
2006 The Embassy of the United States of America
2005 Deutsche Bank
2005 Singapore Airlines
2005 Dilmah Tea, MJF Holdings, Sri Lanka
2004 Deutsche Bank, Colombo
1993 Ceylon Tobacco Company, Sri Lanka
1975 Crafts Council of Great Britain, UK
1974 Liberty’s of London, UK

1983 – 2010 Paintings in private and public collections in the UK, USA,
Belgium, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Japan, India,
Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Canada, France,
Africa and Australia.

2002 Acadamy of Design
1983-89 Somerset College of Art, UK
1983 Bath Academy, UK
1980 Bristol Polytechnic, UK
1979 Croydon College, UK
1978 Central St Martins College of Art, London, UK
1997 Barnet College of Art, UK

2009 One&Only Reethi Rah, Maldives
2009 ArtEast, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
2007 SAARC, Jaisalmer, India

2012 The Awakened Ones by Gananath Obeyesekere
Columbia University Press New York