Bandu Manamperi Bandu Manamperi is a trained archaeologist and conservator who also holds a BFA in Sculpture. A core member of Colombo’s Theertha Artists’ Collective, Bandu was one of the first performance artists in Sri Lanka, creating highly personal art experiences based on the transformation of his own body, but he doesn’t limit himself to any one genre and his ...
Kumar who describes himself as “an incurable francophone cum francophile” has had a long association with France, for more than a quarter of a century. He made his debut on the little screen with the legendary, French television programme “Bonsoir” on ITN in 1986 with which he rapidly became a household name. For more read page 42 ARTRA Magazine Dec ...
Dr. Sumudi Suraweera is the Co-Director of the creative music school, Musicmatters in Colombo 8, who has established himself as a versatile musician. He obtained his PhD in the discipline of ethnomusicology in 2010 from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research focused on Sri Lankan Low-Country traditional drumming. Prior to this, he completed a Bachelor of Music in ...
Ajai Singh is the Founder and President of Colombo Fashion Week, the premier platform for Sri Lanka’s fashion/design industry. This year, Colombo Fashion Week celebrated its 10th year, continuing to aim at developing a South Asian fashion hub, which encourages and promotes commerce between regional designers and retailers. Ajai also conceptualised ‘Garments Without Guilt’ – Sri Lanka’s revolutionary campaign for ...
ARTRA Magazine is in its second year. With this endowment, we have made the attempt to understand, explore and articulate the art space in Sri Lanka, a step further from what we have in the previous publications. Hereon, the section ‘Works of Art and Personalities’ will provide critical content that deconstructs the scope of a particular field of Art in ...
Soundarie David is the founder and MusicalDirector of Sri Lanka’s premier female ensemble, ‘Soul Sounds’, which has performed and won awards internationally over the last four years, with acclaimed performances in India, Australia, China, Kuwait, Austria, France, USA and Malaysia. Soundarie completed her musical career at the prestigious Royal College of Music unit London, after having left school, where she ...
You are the Cause of me, I – a drop in the Causal Ocean, An eye amidst a peacock’s plume. Take me as an atom of You, a molecule, A sub-atomic structure, a part of You. Take, but do not throw away, As I’ve rid already. And the riddance follows me, Like sub-atomic parts of me, Or You – chasing ...
Fashion has struggled to gain its recognition as form of art, due to its nature as “the bastard child of capitalism and female vanity,” very aptly articulated by to Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. I believe that fashion holds a valid claim as a form of art. Designer wear requires a ...
ANOLI PERERA – COMFORT ZONE 2013 Anoli’s work consists of large installations, paintings, sculpture and more recently photo-performances. Hailed as the pioneering contemporary woman artist in Sri Lanka, who ushered in art that is informed by feminism and craft art practices, Anoli’s work engages critically on thematic that range from women’s issues, history, myth to identity, colonialism and post ...
Poornima Jayasinghe Self-taught artist and photographer Poornima Jayasinghe is interested in the question of whether photography can offer the same freedom of expression to the artist as painting. Do I point my camera outwards to the existing world or turn it inward towards my soul? Am I taking photographs of existing reality, or creating my own world? Or does each ...
Endowment 5 Theme : The Role Art plays in Promoting Multiplicity For Subscriptions call +94772305054, You can also purchase it next week at Barefoot, Odel, Sarasavi, Vijitha Yapa, Makeen and www.books.lk. The post ARTRA Magazine Endowment 5 – Will be out Next Week! appeared first on ARTRA | The Platform for Artistic Expression.
Do Not Fear to Touch Do not fear to touch what is, In that sense, Not yours: What we 9/10 the time do And do without guilt. If this world was meant to be Uncomplicated, Those who wrote the Bible Would have Been blending juice. Things don’t belong to anyone, Things don’t succumb to dust As long as man lives, ...
Hello Artoholics, We have now made arrangements for ARTRA Magazine to be purchased online via Magzter. Visit http://www.magzter.com/LK/Jaz-Publishing/ARTRA/Art/ ARTRA Magazine can also be downloaded via Iphone, Ipad, Android and Web for convenience. Regards, Team ARTRA The post ARTRA Magazine NOW ONLINE AS WELL! appeared first on ARTRA | The Platform for Artistic Expression.
we promote originality in problem-solving through the use of intuitive, image-based learning and story-creation techniques. The primary approach we use ‘mystery painting’, which is practiced in silence and can be regarded as a form of samatha or concentration meditation leading to calmness of mind. The process of Mystery Painting has three components: Cloud Seeding, Cloud Watching and Cloud Walking. ...
It was a paper of once-upon-a-time, made of vicissitudes, fragility and anxiety, cutting edges and shrapnels, She brought words and spaces to fill heart-pages, mornings and sunsets, ointment of smiles, heartache of anticipation. She brought days,days and days and took away every night. It was a paper of torn moments, made of wheels and compartments, clipped-wings and grasping. snakes and ...
Do you know what gets to us Before the all empowering feminist discourse, And modern-day- thinking? Mothers. We are told that The ‘patriarchally- puppetted’ and produced Stereotypical, cross culturally similar ‘mother roles’ allow little margins For individual identity and Women are subsumed into this Large all encompassing Earth like word. This word Has power in just that. Its gigantic homogeneity ...
A new article on NPR elaborates on five things that will help you find inspiration. From moving out to a foreign land for a while, to simple things like taking a shower, can apparently get you to see things in new ways… Follow the link for the full story. http://www.npr.org/2012/06/21/155369663/5-ways-to-spark-your-creativity
Photo credit to Thanuja Amendra (Retrieved from the Life Section of the Sunday Island Newspaper published on the 17th of June 2012) I am 16.3 hands tall. My name is ENZO. I was born on April 28, 1992, and I arrived on this beautiful island from France on January 5, 1998. I am eager to tell my story and wait ...
Today’s Pick is a photograph taken by Rajitha Perera titled ‘Not My Turn Yet’. Quite though provocative. The post ARTRA Magazine’s Pick of the Day 22/8/13 – Work by Rajitha Perera appeared first on ARTRA | The Platform for Artistic Expression.
