Being of Being V, 2024
100 x 70.2 cm
Being of Being II,2023
111 x 74.5 cm
OFFICIAL PROGRAMME FOR ARTRA MAGAZINE’S LAUNCH OF THE LAKI SENANAYAKE EDITION AND ART EXPERIENTIAL FESTIVAL
Mar 4 & 5, Jetwing Lighthouse Galle Bringing together some of the most renowned local artists and architects, the contributors and speakers for the Launch of ARTRA Magazine’s Laki Senanayake Edition & Art Experiential Festival include architect and academic Ismeth Raheem, who worked very closely with Geoffrey Bawa and Laki Senanayake on many architectural projects…
PROGRAMME AEF MAR 2023
Official Programme for ARTRA Magazine’s Launch of the Laki Senanayake Edition and Art Experiential Festival Bringing together some of the most renowned local artists and architects, the contributors and speakers for the Launch of ARTRA Magazine’s Laki Senanayake Edition & Art Experiential Festival include architect and academic Ismeth Raheem, who worked very closely with Geoffrey…
PROGRAMME OF AEF OCT 2023
Official Programme for The Launch of ARTRA Magazine’s Comics & Caricatures Edition & Art Experiential Festival | Bawa Brothers | Brief Garden by Bevis Bawa & Cinnamon Bentota Beach ART TALKS | ART TOURS | ART EXHIBITS FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS Call +94 77 570 1891 AEF One Day Pass | Cinnamon Bentota Beach (without…
ART EXPERIENTIAL EVENINGS | THU, SEP 5 & MON, SEP 9
6.30pm to 7.30pm 6th September, 2023 Visual Art | Paintings
ARTRA’S ART EXPERIENTIAL FESTIVAL OCT 13-15
In Celebration of the Bawa Brothers ARTRA’s Art Experiential Festival taking place between Fri-Sun, Oct 13-15 at Cinnamon Bentota Beach & Brief Garden by Bevis Bawa themed ‘Bawa Brothers’ pays homage to the esteemed contributions of Bevis Bawa (1909 – 1992) and Geoffrey Bawa (1919 – 2003) to 20th century Sri Lankan art & architecture….
GALLE FORT IN THE CONTEMPORARY
Art Trail Jan 25 – 28, 2024 Pulasthi Handunge (2024) Reflections, Roots Unbound 01 Galle Fort transforms into a living museum during the Galle Literary Festival Jan 25 – 28, 2024 as we present Art Trail – Galle Fort in the Contemporary Edition together across charming venues with historic flair enamoured by the works of…
BEHIND THE ALTERNATIVE VOICE OF PURE EVIL | LONDON
Charles Uzzell-Edwards at Landesi Nestled within the scenic isles of the Galle Fort and amongst the charming splendor of Landesi, an intimate Meet-The-Artist session spotlighting Charles Uzzell-Edwards flourished. Engaging a remarkably varied demographic of people drawn in from the Galle Literary Festival, the Art Trail became a revolving door into contemporary Sri Lankan and international…
ELEVATING VOICES & EPICENTRES OF ART
ARTRA’s Art Ecosystem 2023 was an incredibly successful year for India’s art industry. Earning a massive turnover of $144.3 million through the sales of 3833 artworks during the fiscal year, the success of their art industry paralleled their economic boom, with India closing off 2023 with a GDP of $3.73 trillion USD. As Mark Jones,…
PROGRAMME OF AEF SEP 2024
Fri-Sun, Sep 6 to 8 2024, Colombo | Harold Peiris Gallery & de Soysa House FOR TICKETS Call +94 77 570 1891 Friday, 6th of September | Day 1 Galle Face Hotel 6.30pm to 8.30pmLaunch of ARTRA Magazine’s Art & Design of Ismeth Raheem Edition An evening of art, conversation, food and drinks with the revered…
Reconciliation II, 2025
90cm × 80cm
UPON THE TRANSFORMATION OF GALLE FORT INTO A LIVING MUSEUM
Art Trail at The Galle Literary Festival 2024 (From left to right) Azara Jaleel, Jagath Weerasinghe, Channa Daswatte & Chevaan Daniel at the Launch of ARTRA Magazine’s ‘Galle Fort in the Contemporary’ E66, on 30 Leyn Baan Street, Galle Fort Transformed for 4 festive-filled days, the Galle Fort flourished into a sprawling art gallery. The…
Pattern Processing V, 2022
72 x 111.5cm
CREATING VISUAL SYMPHONIES
Marco Manamperi | ARTRA’s Emerging Artist Best of 2023 Mahela ‘Marco’ Manamperi is a rising emerging artist in the Sri Lankan contemporary art scene today. Born in Balangoda, a large town in the Ratnapura District, Marco wields a distinguished style in his digital medium. With a scalpel’s proficiency, he utilizes stunning visual symbols to cut…
RENDITIONS OF RESILIENCE
Mohamed Hathi | ARTRA’s Emerging Artist Best of 2023 Hailing from Sainthamaruthu in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, Mohamed Hathi is ARTRA’s Emerging Artist | Best of 2023. His mesmerizing approach to art carries across the canvas, his dark and striking motifs weighted by the depth of his themes, rendering each work into a…
COMICS AND CARICATURES EDITION – BEVIS’ BANTER
In Conversation with Rohan de Soysa Await full article. 1st December, 2021 Visual Art | Paintings
OF ILLINESS & ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
Pakkiyarajah Pushpakanthan The idea of art as a therapeutic medium is recorded to have emerged in 1942 when British soldier Adrian Hill was recovering from his service in World War I. Adrian Hill was an author and artist whose process of recovery led him to discover the nuanced healing and cathartic experiences or art’s preoccupation…
‘TONIGHT NO POETRY WILL SERVE’, AN INITIATIVE
Mariah Lookman In a 1946 preface by the World Health Organization, the organization defined holistic health as the state of complete mental, physical and social well-being than the absence of an illness in the physical vessel of an individual. The implementation of this preamble then identifies with the idea of the consequence or an action…
AN ANIMATOR’S FERVENCY TO TELL A STORY
Randy Chriz While Disney’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ became the widely popular first ever animation cartoon in 1928, the medium of animation has been used since 1906; the first animated ‘Humorous Phases OF Funny Faces’ created in France, appearing in 1906. What followed then were a series of animation feature films the first of it being ‘Snow…