ABOUT ARTIST

Anoma’s work encapsulates her passion for regeneration and unity. Her art highlights the seeking of a harmonious co-existence with nature and with our fellow man as she focuses on diversity, inclusivity, healing and sustainability in all of her works.

In 2019 she became the first solo Sri Lankan artist to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, the acknowledged Olympics or Oscars of Art. In 2016 she was the only artist from South Asia at the prestigious auction house Sotheby’s Hong Kong exhibition of women artists of the silk route. She has exhibited internationally from 1999 onwards in galleries in London, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Maldives, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and New Delhi. Several of them were solo shows. Her paintings are now in collections in every continent of the world.

The artist frequently collaborates with creatives, scientists, activists, poets, composers, dancers and political advisors to create multi faceted, instructive and interactive installations which include performance, video, digital, sculptural installations as well as working on her pure paint works on canvas and paper.

An alumna of the iconic CentralSaintMartins, University if the Arts, London, she has been a visiting lecturer at her alma mater as well as at several British art colleges. In her thirty years in the UK her designs were sold worldwide in Europe, Japan and the USA and to couturiers Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Chanel, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren. Her design for Bill Gibb was the cover of British Vogue April 1974.

Selected for the SAARC art exhibition in 2007 her painting was exhibited in all seven capitals of the SAARC region.

Anoma writes that ‘the work reflects upon the universality of man and our common humanity in the face of conflict, division and human insecurity. It urges tolerance, inclusivity and harmony; and invites us to accept the stewardship we share of our fragile and fractured planet.