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Writings of Sri Lankan Art
Following are essays written on Contemporary art in Sri Lanka in particular, and South Asia in general by leading artists, art writers and scholars interested in contemporary art and culture in the Asian region. Majority of them have been previously published elsewhere.
Main Essays
Sri Lankan Art History
by Jagath WeerasingheContemporary Art in Sri Lanka
(Essay first published in ‘Contemporary Art in Sri Lanka’. In, Ed. Caroline Turner Ed., Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art in Asia and the Pacific. Canberra: Pandanus Book in 2005)
Breaking the Limits: A Commentary on the Contemporary Sri Lankan Art Scene
by G. R. Constantine
Female Artists in Sri Lanka:
Problems of Representation of the Female Subject and Issues of
Agency
by Sasanka Perera
( First presented as a conference paper (written in English) at the 6th National Convention of Women’s Studies organized by CENWOR, Colombo, March 1998. A Sinhala translation of this essay was published in Artlab Vol. 3 & 4, 2007, Pitakotte: Theertha/ Artlab.)
Painting the Artist’s self–Location, relocation and the metamorphosis
Changing Dynamics in Contemporary Sri Lankan Visual Art.
by Anoli Perera
(First published under the title 'A New Order: Contemporary Visual Art in Sri Lanka'. Art Asia Pacific Issue 26, Sydney, Australia, 2000.)
Women Artists in Sri Lanka:
Are they Carriers of a Women’s Burden?
by Anoli Perera
(Essay first published in the South Asia Journel vol. 2 2008. Pitakotte: Colombo Institute/ Theertha)
Politics of Art: The Rise and Fall of the Dutch Murals at the Kathaluwa Nawamuni Viharaya
By Sasanka Perera
Text in Sinhala language (PDF).
(Essay first published in ArtLab Vol. 2, 2004, Pitakotte: Theertha/
ArtLab)
Catalog Essays
Performing the Male Body, from Nude to Naked.
Performance Art: A brief history
by Jagath Weerasinghe
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' Maze', Pitakotte: Theertha, 2006.)
The Kitsch and the Expressive: recent works of Anura Krishantha
by Jagath Weerasinghe
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' The Kitsch and the Expressive', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2007.)
The Art of Rohan Amerasinghe: The ‘monologue’ that craves to be a ‘dialogue’
by Jagath Weerasinghe
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' The Art of Rohan Amerasinghe', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2007.)
Comfort Zone -by Jagath Weerasinghe
by Jagath Weerasinghe
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' Comfort Zones', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2007.)
Day 2 Day: Art of Pradeep Thalawatte
by Anoli Perera
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' Day 2 Day', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2008.)
Pandora's Box: Art of Cora de Lang
by Anoli Perera
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' Pandora's Box', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2008.)
My ID & Ancestral Dress: Art of Pala Potupitiya
by Anoli Perera
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' My ID & Ancestral Dress', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2008.)
Boys Own: Art of Menika van der Pooten
by Anoli Perera
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' Boys Own, Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2008.)
You & Me: Art of Thisath Thoradeniya
by Anoli Perera
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' You & Me', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2008.)
Art of Sybil Wettasinghe
by Anoli Perera
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' Sybil: Art of Sybil Wettasinghe', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2009.)
Biography of Sybil Wettasinghe
by Nethra Samarawickrama
(First published in the exhibition catalog ' Sybil: Art of Sybil Wettasinghe', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2009.)
Celestial Fervor: A Prelude to an Exhibition
by Anoli Perera
(First published in the exhibition catalog 'Celestial Fervor:Art of Jagath Weersinghe' , Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/Theertha, 2009.)
Reading the Art of Jagath Weerasinghe
by Qadri Ismail
( First published in the exhibition catalog 'Celestial Fervor: Art of Jagath Weerasinghe', Pitakotte: Red Dot Gallery/ Theertha, 2009)
Exhibition Reviews and Newspaper Essays
No Order
by Asoka de Zoysawebbed in Security
by Asoka de Zoysa
( First published in May 2001)
Creating her Woman
by Anoka de Zoysa
( First published in Sunday Times, 10th October 1999)
Art of Anoli Perera
by G. R. Constantine
( First published in The Island, May 2001)
Lost in the Maze
by Sasanka Perera
(Published in The Island, 15 November 2006.)
Politics of Art- One Year Drawing Project: May 2005 - October 2007 by Muhanned Cader, T. Shanaathanan, Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Jagath Weerasinghe
by Qadri Ismail
(Essay first published in Sunday Leader, 28th August 2008)
Opinion Essays
National Art Gallery or State Funeral Parlor
State of the Art: Sri Lankan Art Since Independence
by Anoli Perera
(First published in the 'Frontline', Issue of February 26th
1999. Chennai, India)
Asian Art Today: Exploiting the Code - A Critic From the Margins
(Essay first published in the South Asia Journel vol. 1 2007.
Pitakotte: Colombo Institute/ Theertha)