Archives: Gallery Items

Somewhere Between Truth and Its Telling (2007/2012)

Digital documentation Courtesy the artist and Floating Space Theatre Company Archive ‘Somewhere Between Truth and Its Telling’ was first performed as two standalone works: ‘In a Shadow—an Evening of Performance Poetry’, St Andrew’s Scots Kirk, Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 2007 and ‘Stranger Than Fiction’, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, United Kingdom, April 2012 ‘Somewhere Between Truth Read More

Broken Hands (1998/1999)

Photographs Collection the artist First exhibited: ‘Crafty Thoughts’, Liverpool University Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2001 In 1996 Pradeep Chandrasiri made an installation that included terracotta casts of his right hand. The work was shown at the artist-run Heritage Gallery in Colombo. He went on to use the same casts as part of a two-part Read More

Living Sculpture (2004)

C-type prints Courtesy the artist and Shalini Ganendra Fine Art First exhibited: ‘Where, What, Who, When and How’, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2007 ‘Living Sculpture’ is a performance that took place in 2004 at the Gampaha train station in Sri Lanka. The artist stood perfectly still in the middle of a crowd of commuters, Read More

I Let My Hair Loose: Protest Series IV (2010)

Inkjet on Hahnemuhle paper Collection and Courtesy Museum of Art and Photography  (MAP), Bangalore.  Gift of Anushri, Neetika and Amit Kumar Jain, New Delhi First exhibited: ‘Theertha Artists’, 1 Shanthi Road Studio Gallery, Bangalore, India, 2011 This series of works was inspired by the artist’s childhood memories of her grandmother’s house where she recalls seeing Read More

I Let My Hair Loose: Protest Series I (2010)

Inkjet on Hahnemuhle paper Collection and Courtesy Museum of Art and Photography  (MAP), Bangalore.  Gift of the artist First exhibited: ‘Theertha Artists’, 1 Shanthi Road Studio Gallery, Bangalore, India, 2011 This series of works was inspired by the artist’s childhood memories of her grandmother’s house where she recalls seeing photographs of her female ancestors. In Read More

I Let My Hair Loose: Protest Series II (2010)

Inkjet on Hahnemuhle paper Collection and Courtesy Museum of Art and Photography  (MAP), Bangalore.  Gift of the artist First exhibited: ‘Theertha Artists’, 1 Shanthi Road Studio Gallery, Bangalore, India, 2011 This series of works was inspired by the artist’s childhood memories of her grandmother’s house where she recalls seeing photographs of her female ancestors. In Read More

Do Not Measure Me (2001)

Digital print Collection the artist First exhibited: ‘Aham Puram’, Jaffna Library, Sri Lanka, 2004 The conscription of young men and women by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist militant group in Sri Lanka, was common practice during the civil conflict. T. P. G. Amarajeewa’s self-portrait alludes to the forced recruitment process by Read More

Untitled (c. 1930s)

Digital prints reprinted from silver gelatin prints Beling Family Collection, Colombo First exhibited: ‘one hundred thousand small tales’, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2018 W. J. G. Beling was one of the founding members of the ’43 Group— a collective of modern mid-20th-century artists established in 1943—widely recognised as being Sri Lanka’s first modernist collective. Read More

Female Searching, Checkpoint at Pallai (2007)

Archival digital print from original ‘C’ type photograph All works collection the artist First exhibited: ‘Lanka 1986–1992’ first published by Garnet, United Kingdom, 1993  ‘Sri Lanka: War Stories’ first published by Stephen Champion, 2008 Stephen Champion’s first book of photographs ‘Lanka 1986–1992’ was published in 1993. He self-published his second book ‘Sri Lanka: War Stories’ Read More

Masked JVP Supporter, Tangalle (1987)

Archival digital print from original ‘C’ type photograph All works collection the artist First exhibited: ‘Lanka 1986–1992’ first published by Garnet, United Kingdom, 1993  ‘Sri Lanka: War Stories’ first published by Stephen Champion, 2008 Stephen Champion’s first book of photographs ‘Lanka 1986–1992’ was published in 1993. He self-published his second book ‘Sri Lanka: War Stories’ Read More

Me, Myself and I (2010)

Pen on paper Collection the artist First exhibited: ‘Me, Myself and I’, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2010 Conceived by the artist to be seen as two lines of facing figures, ‘Me, Myself and I’ is a series of self-portraits. Drawn in profile, the figures reflect the artist’s training in Mughal miniature painting where the Read More

Nowhere Is Now Here (1985)

Silkscreen on paper Private collection, Colombo First exhibited: ‘one hundred thousand small tales’, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2018 Laki Senanayake’s work is most well known for its lyrical line and his ability to delineate trees, figures and animals, especially birds, with a poised and expressive simplicity of stroke and mark-making. ‘Nowhere Is Now Here’ Read More

Hindu Penitent, Kataragama, Ceylon (1957)

Silver gelatin vintage print Collection The Estate of Reg van Cuylenburg First exhibited: ‘The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States of America, 2018 Reg Van Cuylenburg was trained as a photographer under the modernist pioneer Lionel Wendt (1900–1944). He is one of Wendt’s only known Read More

Hindu Penitent with Kavadi, Kataragama, Ceylon (1957)

Silver gelatin vintage print Collection The Estate of Reg van Cuylenburg First exhibited: ‘The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States of America, 2018 Reg Van Cuylenburg was trained as a photographer under the modernist pioneer Lionel Wendt (1900–1944). He is one of Wendt’s only known Read More

Purification Ritual in the Manik Ganga, Kataragama, Ceylon (1957)

Silver gelatin vintage print Collection The Estate of Reg van Cuylenburg First exhibited: ‘The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States of America, 2018 Reg Van Cuylenburg was trained as a photographer under the modernist pioneer Lionel Wendt (1900–1944). He is one of Wendt’s only known Read More