Sketching is sometimes considered as a rough work of an idea or scenery where the artist records it down to develop it and produce it to a great piece of art as the end result. However, to Firi Rahman sketching is more than just ‘sketching’: he has now tranformed into a professional who engages his time mostly sketching human figures. Firi Rahman, who’s also known ...
The Jaipur Literature Festival brings together some of the well renowned thinkers and writers from across South Asia and the world every year from Nobel laureates to local language writers, Man Booker prize winners to debut novelists, every January. A group of esteemed authors come together for five days of readings, debates and discussions since 2006 every January. The Jaipur ...
Q | Who or what organisation is behind the birth of project Imago Mundi? A | The Imago Mundi Collection is a project conceptualized and developed by Luciano Benetton and the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche. It is a voluntary, non-profit initiative to create a creative landscape of established and emerging artists around the world, through a published book representing the ...
Meg Baber Meg’s degree in English Literature and her love of surfing, combined with her work as an intelligence risk analyst and a screenplay script advisor, served her well when she and her photographer husband left the Middle East to scout the entire length of Brazil in 2009, checking out fabulous hideaways for us at i-escape on the way. Meg ...
Rocio Martin Ruiz Jarabo Rocio graduated with first class honors on Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Science in Architecture in 2002, at the Superior School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid. She also spent one academic year in London at the Bartlett School of Architecture (granted thanks to her academic merits). Her working experience started with few practices in ...
We would like to thank Tuan Shehan, ARTRA Team member, for his contribution towards ARTRA Magazine E16 issue. To read ARTRA Magazine Feb / March E16, purchase a copy at Barefoot, Odel, Gandhara and Sarasavi Bookshops. Or purchase on, iTunes – www.itunes.apple.com/us/app/artra Google Play – www.play.google.com/store/apps/magmakeredition.artra Amazon Kindle – www.amazon.co.uk/magMaker-Editions-LLC-Artra The post Featured Contributor of ARTRA Magazine E16 | Tuan Shehan appeared first on ARTRA | ...
Umeshi Rajeendra graduated from Denison University in the US with a BA in Dance and BA in Economics with a political science minor. For Umeshi, creative movement is her first idiom. Even though she started dancing at the age of 4, her interest began only when she was 8. Her passion and love for dance has only grown with time ...
We would like to thank Rocio Martin Ruiz-Jarabo, Tuan Shehan, Meg Barber and Nifraz Rifaz for their contribution towards the ARTRA Magazine E16. To read ARTRA Magazine Feb / March E16, purchase a copy at Barefoot, Odel, Gandhara and Sarasavi Bookshops. Or purchase on, iTunes – www.itunes.apple.com/us/app/artra Google Play – www.play.google.com/store/apps/magmakeredition.artra Amazon Kindle – www.amazon.co.uk/magMaker-Editions-LLC-Artra The post Contributors of ARTRA Magazine E16 appeared first on ARTRA ...
Dileepa Jeewantha is from Hikkaduwa. He moved to Colombo, a few years ago, to learn about art. During his stay, he made efforts to visit different art exhibitions held in different galleries at the point, which exposed him to the local art scene and motivated him learnmore about the subject. Thereafter, he enrolled himself at the Vibhavi Academy in Colombo. ...
“Man whittles, carves, sings, dances, gestures, molds, draws and paints. The doing and making is artistic when the perceived result is of such a nature that its qualities as perceived have controlled the question of production,” wrote John Dewey in ‘Art as Experience’. Wildlife photographers have the “doing and making” of painting with the colours of nature and of imbuing ...
Dileepa Jeewantha is from Hikkaduwa. He moved to Colombo, a few years ago, to learn about art. During his stay, he made efforts to visit different art exhibitions held in different galleries at the point, which exposed him to the local art scene and motivated him learn more about the subject. Thereafter, he enrolled himself at the Vibhavi Academy in ...
Natasha Senanayake is one of Sri Lanka’s very few female composers. She has recently received the title of “Commonwealth Music Ambassador” for a period of 12 months, upon becoming the winner of the Commonwealth Music Competition, Glasgow 2014. Natasha completed her Master’s degree in Music Composition at King’s College London where she studied composition with Dr. Rob Keeley. She also ...
Soldiers are not heroes. They are not villains either. They are humans. Even those who act ‘inhumanely’ are people driven to act and have seen or done things that they can’t forget; things that may haunt them for the rest of their lives. There is a conflict in their requirement to be proud as soldiers while they suffer the consequences ...
The South American painter Frida Kahlo painted her own reality and made the observer feel what she felt. Her sense of style and colour was mostly influenced by her native Mexican culture. This collection captures this vivid identity and sense of colour in sharing a personal reality with the outer world. Ethnic identities and their vibrant individuality has been brought ...
Julius Mitchel is primarily a Beatboxer and is also a Vocal Instrumentalist, Singer, Pianist and Choral /Acapella Music Arranger/ Composer. He has performed as a professional artist in over 4countries and has entertained thousands of people in over 250 shows. Julius’ International performances in clyde the following; China (2010 World Choir Games, Shaoxing) Germany (2004 “Pueri Cantores” World Choir Festival) Dubai India (Freeze Hip Hop Festival, ...
This project was dedicated to the exploration of the ideology of escape for our society and the role of loneliness in the lives of the world’s upper class. With power and wealth comes loneliness due to the lack of privacy; this experience is a way of observing the chance to use escapism to cope or totally leave their reality. The ...
Design is the process of solving problems in our society. When I designed the logo, branding and an exhibition for a center dedicated to perceptual dyslexia, I was trying to draw attention to a issue often unnoticed in our society and provide awareness, information and solutions through visual language that can be understood by people with this condition. The many layers ...
In a three-week artist residency in Vancouver this past September 2009, Sri Lankan artist Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan worked collaboratively with the local Tamil diaspora, exploring the condition of collectivity rooted in a consciousness of homelessness, and the idea of homeland and host land as constantly changing entities. The result is a work he calls Imag(in)ing ‘Home’ (2009), for which he and ...
We all know where our Main Streets are, but do we know what they are and why they matter? Whether they are named Avenue or Street or Boulevard, what they represent is universal. Is the Main Street the economic engine, the big stage, or the core of the community? Our Main Streets tell us how we are doing and how ...
Ronela Edirisinghe is an interior designer who has a passion for art. Before entering into the Interior Designing field, she was familiar the subject of art since her childhood, as her mother is an ardent lover of art and an artist herself. Therefore, Ronela chose Art and Design as one of her subjects at the Asian International School. However, Interior ...
