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 [...]
Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS
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 [...]
PowerSaskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo - 2010 Through millennia, socialization has always been achieved by insisting on hierarchies of power defined by creed, religion, caste, age, gender and organizational function. We are now at a crucial and historic moment in the annals of power. Never before has information been so readily and instantly accessible and so [...]
AquaXVA Gallery - Dubai - 2010 One&Only, Reethi Rah - Maldives - 2009 The exhibition is comprised of several installations which include mixed media paintings and digital art. They each explore in a variety of different ways the very compelling and global issue of climate change. Aqua raises questions of rising sea levels, increasing temperatures [...]
PhoenixColombo Art Biennale, Colombo 2009 Another world is not only possible. She is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her. But on a quiet day if I listen very carefully I can hear her breathing.' These words by Arundhati Roy inspired the exhibition which was shown at CAB 2009 [...]
TransformationNoble Sage Collection, London 2008 Rites of passage, whether they be physical journeys, intellectual pursuits, emotional trauma’s or spiritual quests, seem to involve three separate stages. The often painful separation from the old state. A disorientating, but limited period without definition. The final release into the new element, in a new form. These journeys begin [...]
QuestThe National Gallery, Colombo The Fort Printers, Galle 2006 A trilingual multi media work that combines digital art with provocative words, music, performance and video installation and stems from travels during 2002 to 2005 throughout war torn and tsunami ravaged Sri Lanka ranging from Jaffna to Colombo. Images of devastation and loss are contrasted with [...]
SpaceStella Downer Gallery, Sydney 2005 'The artist takes her inspiration from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the paintings which abound in symbolism and metaphor deal with the numinous world. The paintings are like windows of realization into the eternal tussle that exists between man and nature. They have a sense of reconciliation within this [...]
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