Catharsis through paint and poetry – Aditha Dissanayake – The Sunday Leader, Sri Lanka A Certain Quality of Flight: Art for the Soul – Ameena Hussein – Sunday Island, Sri Lanka Departure and Return Paintings’ – Dr. Asoka de Zoysa – Daily News, Sri Lanka Shapes of The World – Professor S. B. Dissanayake – […]
Existentialist Anxieties “When Art Takes Over Faith And Conflict,” Art For The Gods – Aruna Bhowmick – The Statesman, India Healing Through The Canvas – Sujata B. Shakeel – Hindustan Times A Tapestry Of Faith – Uma Nair – The Asian Age, India Lifting The Veil… Partially – The Hindu, India Of Dark Palettes, Light, […]
The World is not Given by his Father but Borrowed from his Children. James Audubon ‘These paintings run from the artist like a forest fire. There are cracks and fissures, images falling asunder and parts physically burnt. There are incongruous elements together, shapes endangered and forms encroaching. Fire, water and earth spit and seethe. Anoma [...]
Kintsugi Kintsugi was shown at the European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Bembo, Canale Grande, Venice during the 58th Venice Biennale. It was on for 6 months. The work comprises of an interactive installation of floating laser cut mesh panels, alongside the book of poetry written for the art; and a 12-minute looped video, incorporating the art, [...]
One Belt One RoadSotheby’s Gallery – Hong Kong 2016 Sotheby's HongKong exhibited the groundbreaking show by women artists reflecting the cultural, geopolitical, economic ecosystem of Asia and Europe. The concept of China s 21st Century initiative 'One Belt One Road' is to interconnect peoples and cultures of the maritime and land routes. Organized by the [...]
Mi Casa et Tu Casa Will 2016 be the pivotal year when notions of humanity, integrity and liberal ideals succumbed to the base instincts of our lesser selves? Mi Casa Es Tu Casa was inspired by the migration and refugee crisis unleashed on the world by war, poverty and famine, with desperate people seeking security [...]
Fairway Colombo Fairway Colombo, the chic city hotel that opened recently in Colombo has pledged a commitment to both the environment and the arts. An integral part of the hotel are the 300 artworks displayed throughout its premises and there are no works by any other artist in the hotel, making the Fairway Colombo as [...]
EarthLinesThis exhibition is the work of an artist and a poet from an island whose past was marked by the seamless coexistence of a magnificent material civilization and the natural world. Created as a response to the 2015 UN Conference of Parties on Climate Change, the installation, encompassing ephemeral glass sculptures and paintings and fragments [...]
New PassagesThe Noble sage collection, London - 2013 "Anoma again uses the poetry of renowned poet and friend, Ramya Jirisinghe as her starting point for exploration of the theme of deliverance. This subject has excited the artist for a few years now, giving her a poetic springboard to surf our understanding of memory and remembrance, [...]
DeliveranceParadise Road Galleries, Colombo Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo Fort Printers, Galle 2012 'We need a fresh paradigm towards a permanent truce with Nature in concurrence with her pace and in sync with her rhythm.' Ray Wijewardene's words encapsulate the essence of the trilingual exhibition which uses art, science and poetry to engage the viewer in [...]
