Bilaal Raji Saheed – Visual Artist & Architect (MFA 2025 & 2024)
Bilaal is a Colombo-based visual artist and architectural designer. He holds an MA from the RCA, London, and a BA from the University of Hong Kong. He has worked on projects with OMA and the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, and collaborates on design initiatives at Hatch Makers Studio. His practice explores global visual culture […]
Barefoot Gallery Colombo – Arts Platform (MFA 2025)
The Barefoot Gallery Colombo serves as a platform for artists, musicians, poets and film-makers. The space is used in a variety of ways: exhibitions by local and foreign artists and photographers, (including The World Press Photo) concerts, poetry readings, film nights and theatre. After a hiatus, it reopened in 1991 as “Gallery 706 Colombo” and […]
Bandu Manamperi – Performance & Visual Artist (MFA 2025 & 2024)
Bandu hails from Bandaragama and is one of the initiators of performance art in Sri Lanka, and is a core member of the Theertha Artists’ Collective. He creates highly personal art experiences based on the transformation of his own body. His art practice also encompasses sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation art, and he lectures and […]
Arulraj Ulaganthan – Visual Artist (MFA 2025)
Arulraj’s practice is anchored in the histories, memories, and unspoken narratives of the Malaiyaga Tamil tea plantation community. Raised in the line-room settlements of Haputale—environments shaped by colonial architecture, economic precarity, and generational endurance—he transforms lived experience and inherited memory into a visual language of resistance and remembrance. His paintings and mixed-media works, layered with […]
Anura Krishantha – Visual Artist (MFA 2025 & 2024)
After graduation from Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, Anura has been intensely involved in continuing his art practice. He has showcased his works in many exhibitions and art events both locally and internationally in countries such as Japan, India, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Singapore, China, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Maldives and Iran. In 2008, he […]
Amani Ariyarathna – Visual Artist & Fashion Designer, MFA Community Artist (MFA 2025 & 2024)
Amani is the founder & fashion designer behind the hand painted and handcrafted sarees of Diora Apparell. Her artistic journey bridges fashion, craft, and contemporary art. Her contemporary art practice began as a Community Artist trained via MFA 2024 Community Art Programming, where she explored new approaches to creativity through embroidery and mixed media. Rooted […]
Adria Pereira – Multidisciplinary Creative (MFA 2025)
Split between Colombo and Midigama, Adria’s work includes writing, illustration, jewellery making, content strategy and more. Adria developed her self-taught design skills with Canva during her time at Mindful.lk and Hatch. She uses the platform to create thoughtful, visually cohesive designs including for branding. She is also a volunteer with the Fearless Collective, a guest […]