THU, 26TH 

Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia | Day 1

10am – 11am

Art Talk (Students Only)

Women & Modernism 

An Art Talk & Art Showcase for students on Sri Lankan women artists who practiced in the early to mid 1900s in Sri Lanka including Nalini Jayasuriya and Swanee Jayawardene, featured artists of ARTRA Magazine ‘Women & Modernism’ Edition Volume 1 (2025). This talk will be an interactive session where students will be given an understanding on the history of Sri Lankan Modern Art while shedding light to important artists who have shaped the artistic landscape locally & internationally.

A part of ARTRA’s initiative to educate students on Modern & Contemporary Art.

6.30pm – 8.30pm

Launch of ARTRA Magazine’s Women & Modernism Edition

An evening of art, conversation and showcase in celebration of the launch of ARTRA Magazine’s Women & Modernism Edition 69 Volume I (2025). Featuring over 65 selected works of art by Swanee Jayawardene and Nalini Jayasuriya  from private and public collections, this edition of ARTRA Magazine explores Sri Lankan women artists who practiced in the early to mid 1900s in Sri Lanka. At the launch,  a conversation based on featured articles on the magazine based on feminist art epistemology and feminist imprints exploring the influences of Modern women artists upon Contemporary women artists will take place amidst Nalini Jayasuriya’s works of art, accolades and literary material belonging to S. Thomas’ College.

Delicacies and drinks shall be served

5000LKR

(limited tickets only)

Venue| S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia

SAT, 28th | Private Collector’s Home, Flower Road | Day 2

9.30am – 10.30am 

Artist Walk

Kesara Ratnavibhushana

Join Kesara Ratnavibhushana for his Artist Walk, as he delves into the stimulus behind his photography exhibition ‘Will to Power’, revealing insights into the tensions of power that lie in Sri Lanka’s landscapes, and the evolution of his rich visual language over his two-decade practice.

Free Entry. To register, call us at +94 77 570 1891

Venue | Private Collector’s Home, 28th Lane Flower Road, Colombo 07

10.30am – 11.30am 

Artist Walk

Mohamed Hathi

Join Mohamed Hathi, ARTRA’s Emerging Artist | Best of 2022 for his Artist Walk, as he explores the artistic vision behind his exhibition ‘Bordered Bodies’, delving into his practice and the ethos of his work, which draws from his observations of misogyny in the East of Sri Lanka, interrogating how marriage and the home can police women’s bodies and their autonomy. 

Free Entry. To register, call us at ‪+94 77 570 1891  

Venue | Private Collector’s Home, 28th Lane Flower Road, Colombo 07

4pm – 5pm

Artist Walk

Malki Jayakody

Join Malki Jayakody, ARTRA’s Emerging Artist | Best of 2023 for her Artist Walk, as she shares thoughts behind her exhibition ‘Places of Persistence’, delving into her mixed-media practice and the symbolism of her abstracts, which deconstruct colonial perceptions of land, labour and skin influencing beauty standards and social hierarchies. 

Free Entry. To register, call us at ‪+94 77 570 1891

Venue | Private Collector’s Home, 28th Lane Flower Road, Colombo 07

6.30pm – 7.30pm

Art Talk

‘Chat at the Collector’s Home?’

Over Eastern delicacies with the artists as part of ARTRA’s Island Gallery initiative in promotion of Art Tourism

Meet & mingle with artists in the intimate setting of a private collector’s home, amidst their art exhibitions curated alongside that of the collector’s personal collection. Including Koralegedara Pushpakumara, Kesara Ratnavibhushana, and ARTRA’s Emerging Artists Best of 2022 – 2025, Malki Jayakody, K. Mathiskumar, Mohamed Hathi, Rajani Serasinghe and Venura Madurapperuma, guests will have the opportunity to chat with the artists over their works. 

Eastern delicacies and drinks shall be served

5000LKR

(limited tickets only)

Venue | Private Collector’s Home, 28th Lane Flower Road, Colombo 07

SUN, 29th | Private Collector’s Home, Flower Road

9.30am – 10.30am 

Artist Walk 

Rajani Serasinghe

Join Rajani Serasinghe, ARTRA’s Emerging Artist | Best of 2024 for her Artist Walk, as she delves into her exhibition of mosaics ‘Impermanence’, giving her interpretation to the natural impermanence of existence, and her artistic process in creating works that 

shed light to the resilience of life as it evolves, constantly adapting and reinventing itself amidst the inevitability of change.

Free Entry. To register, call us at ‪+94 77 570 1891‬  

Venue | Private Collector’s Home, 28th Lane Flower Road, Colombo 07

10.30am – 11.30am 

Artist Walk

Venura Madurapperuma

Join Venura Madurapperuma, ARTRA’s Emerging Artist | Best of 2025 for his Artist Walk, as he provides deeper meaning to his exhibition ‘The Room’, and shares insights into his collection of woodcut prints, which approaches the bedroom as a site of memory – a psychological terrain that reflects one’s most vulnerable truths, and serves as a witness to their most intimate moments of turmoil. 

Free Entry. To register, call us at ‪+94 77 570 1891

Venue | Private Collector’s Home, 28th Lane Flower Road, Colombo 07

11.30am – 12.30pm 

Artist Walk

Kopalapillai Mathiskumar

Join Kopalapillai Mathiskumar through his Artist Walk of his latest exhibition ‘Wounded Faith’ as he delves deeper into the artistic process behind his latest body of mixed-media paintings, which turns a critical eye upon the volatile relationship between religion and politics.

Free Entry. To register, call us at ‪+94 77 570 1891 

Venue | Private Collector’s Home, 28th Lane Flower Road, Colombo 07

4pm – 5pm

Collector Talk

‘On Art Collecting’

Niloo Jayatilake & Thinushka Soysa in conversation with Azara Jaleel

In this segment, Niloo Jayatilake, Art Collector & CEO/Director of Softlogic Invest, together with Thinushka Soysa, Art Collector and Non-Executive Director of M Power Capital Securities, will be in conversation with Azara Jaleel, Editor-in-Chief as they unravel their own art collecting journey over the years; their impetus and tips and the larger impact collecting has on the growth of the art & creative industry while exploring art as a form of investment.

3000LKR

(limited tickets only)

Venue | Private Collector’s Home, 28th Lane Flower Road, Colombo 07