19 - 27 june 2026
Fragments of Us, The Artists
A sri lankan identity exhibition
Presented in collaboration with Off the Kerb Gallery and Ondru, the exhibition brings together artists and community members from Sri Lanka and the diaspora to reflect on Sri Lankan identity as lived across fracture, memory, and becoming.
Peter Ponnaiyah
Featured Artworks
The Cloud (2026)
Fragments of a Portrait II (2026)
Peter Ponnaiyah completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at the Eastern University of Sri Lanka in 2023 and subsequently worked as an Assistant Lecturer. He is currently engaged in active artistic practice and exhibition.
During the final phase of the Vanni war, Ponnaijah experienced forced displacement from his homeland. The immediate loss of lives and the devastating consequences he witnessed are deeply embedded in his physical and psychological memory, forming the foundation of his practice.
His work addresses the unnatural violence and tragedies of war — loss of life, displacement, and the destruction of documents that stripped individuals of their basic rights. He also explores the post-war period: memories of loss, ongoing suffering, and unresolved searches for answers.
Ponnaiyah’s practice additionally questions the environmental consequences of war, including atmospheric pollution and the disruption of ecosystems. The persistent threat of unexploded landmines to free movement is another central theme.
Selected exhibitions include the Degree Show Group Exhibition at Eastern University of Sri Lanka (2023), a Group Exhibition at Gandhi Park, Batticaloa (2023), participation in the Colomboscope 4-Day Workshop (2025), a Group Exhibition at Barefoot Gallery organised by the George Keyt Foundation (2025), a Group Exhibition at Radicle Gallery, Colombo (2026), and a Group Exhibition organised by NTB Bank (2026).
Arumaiththurai Kuvethanan
Featured Artworks
God's Gift (2026)
Tails-Weary Leg (2026)
Shadow (2026)
Arumaiththurai Kuvethanan is an emerging artist from the Northern region of Sri Lanka. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Visual and Technological Arts at the Eastern University of Sri Lanka in 2023, receiving training in painting and drawing under Professors P. Pushpakandan and P. Rubaneethan.
He is currently pursuing a Diploma in Sculpture under the supervision of Professor Sarath Chandrajeewa. In 2025, he participated in the international art residency program 'Nature of the Canvas' and was awarded a certificate of recognition.
His artistic practice focuses on themes of identity, memory, palmyra symbolism, social experiences, and narratives of oppression.
Krishna Rathinasinam
Featured Artworks
Bodiless Existence (2026)
Waiting Shadows (2026)
Neglect (2026)
Krishna Rathinasinam is an emerging young artist from Muthur in the Trincomalee District, displaced to Batticaloa in 2006 due to the war. In 2019, she began her Bachelor's degree at the Swami Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies and later served as an Assistant Lecturer at the university for one year.
From a young age, Krishna had a deep passion for painting. Despite limited formal exposure to art, she developed a distinctive artistic journey through hard work and dedication. The guidance of artist-lecturers P. Pushpakandan and P. Rubenithan played a significant role in shaping her artistic vision.
Krishna's art is deeply rooted in the memories of war she witnessed as a child. Experiences such as aerial bombardments, displacement, burning forests, and shattered lives are expressed through an emotionally charged visual language. Her art has become a voice for orphans, grieving parents, the silent suffering of women, and families still waiting for missing loved ones.
In 2025, she participated in a group exhibition organised by Art Rhizome, and in 2026, she took part in the women artists' group exhibition 'Let the Work Speak', also organised by Art Rhizome.
Sivagnanam Amalaitharan
Featured Artworks
Breathing Roots (2026)
Orphans of Their Own Land 01 (2025)
Orphans of Their Own Land 02 (2026)
Sivagnanam Amalaitharan is an emerging contemporary artist based in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Swami Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies in 2019.
His work centres on the memories and silences of the Vanni region, exploring how the aftermath of war continues to affect not only human life but also the land, water, and air. Fragmented landscapes, muted tones, and broken forms evoke memory, loss, and unspoken trauma. Natural elements — soil, water, trees — interweave with human experience, reflecting the enduring impacts of conflict.
His practice bears witness to destruction while offering a quiet invitation to remembrance, healing, and regeneration. Each work draws the viewer into an intimate encounter with a place's hidden history and its deep emotional resonance.
Vigneswaran Thangeswaran
Featured Artworks
Cissus Quadrangularis (2026)
Coccinia (2026)
Cissus Quadrangularis II (2026)
T. Vigneswaran was born in 1993 in Kaluvenkeni, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. He completed his school education at Kaluvenkeni Vivekananda Vidyalayam and, in 2020, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Jaffna, training in painting, sculpture, printmaking, handicrafts, and photography.
His first exhibition, 'Colorless Sea', was held in 2020 at the University of Jaffna. His subsequent exhibition 'Padaiyal' was held in 2026 at the Batticaloa Koodam Art Gallery.
Vigneswaran belongs to the Vedda indigenous community, a coastal tribal group from the eastern region of Sri Lanka. His visual art practice engages with coastal indigenous communities through multiple perspectives — exploring their distinct customs, language, land, and artistic traditions, and portraying a way of life deeply connected with nature. His practice also responds to the ways in which colonial consumer culture, majoritarian ideologies, and other forces have enabled the destruction and exploitation of indigenous lands, resources, and cultural systems.
Rinoshan Susiman
Featured Artworks
Topography: Undefined Landscape
Rinoshan Susiman is a multidisciplinary artist from Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, working across moving image, sound, installation, interactive new media, and mixed media. He holds a BFA from the University of Jaffna and an MFA from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore.
His practice explores the relationship between memory, bodily movement, and the internalization of socio-political landscapes, examining how lived and inherited experiences register within the body as form, gesture, and spatial perception.
He has exhibited internationally, including at SOAS Gallery, London, and at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, as part of '(Un)Layering the Future Past of South Asia: Young Artists' Voices', curated by Salima Hashmi and Manmeet K. Walia. In Sri Lanka, he held a solo exhibition titled SELFSCAPE at the Art Gallery, University of Jaffna. He has also participated in exhibitions across Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and India.
He is a recipient of the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute for South Asian Art (UMISSA) scholarship.
Susiman Nirmalavasan
Featured Artworks
Kiss of Judas
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
Susiman Nirmalavasan (b. 1982, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka) is a visual artist, educator, and activist whose work reflects on war, memory, and everyday life through the experimental use of humble and organic materials such as tea dye, charcoal, ash, and sand. Since 2001, he has exhibited extensively throughout Sri Lanka and internationally, exploring themes of conflict, disappearance, gender-based violence, and collective memory.
Drawing from Christian narratives and lived war experiences, Nirmalavasan creates symbolic, emotionally resonant artworks that centre the lives of marginalised and overlooked communities. He is a co-founder of Artists for Non-Violent Living, a collective that uses art as a medium for peacebuilding and social justice.
A significant aspect of his practice involves situating artworks in meaningful and contextually resonant spaces — former war zones, sites of lived memory, community environments. His installations and paintings function as both acts of remembrance and spaces of resistance, offering comfort, preserving memory, and amplifying voices that are often silenced.
Dinesh Perera
Featured Artworks
Unspoken
Unfinished Memory
On ‘Unspoken’:
Unspoken portrays a face suspended between presence and absence. Its expression resists certainty, carrying emotions that are difficult to articulate yet deeply felt. Layers of texture and muted colour evoke the accumulation of untold stories, silences, and internal dialogues. The work invites viewers to consider the experiences that remain unvoiced—those shaped by displacement, belonging, loss, and personal history. In its ambiguity, the portrait becomes a space where individual and collective memories intersect.
On ‘Unfinished Memory ’:
Unfinished Memory explores the fragile nature of remembrance and the way identity is shaped through incomplete recollections. Emerging from layered textures and fragmented marks, the face appears suspended between presence and disappearance, resisting clear definition. The work reflects how memories are often reconstructed rather than preserved, altered by time, distance, and emotion. What remains is not a complete narrative, but a collection of fragments that continue to influence our sense of self. Through its obscured forms and uncertain expression, Unfinished Memory invites viewers to reflect on the spaces between remembering and forgetting, where personal histories remain unresolved yet deeply present.
Raja Segar
Featured Artworks
Couple Under Umbrella (2004)
Raja Segar is a professional artist and sculptor who experiments with the refractive effect of light in his abstract and figurative paintings. He works in watercolour, oil, and mixed media, and in sculpture works in steel.
He has held solo exhibitions in Australia, England, India, and Sri Lanka, in addition to numerous group exhibitions.
Almost all of his paintings have been acquired by art lovers around the world, and his work has been featured in newspapers, documentaries, and periodicals including Reader’s Digest. Two of his paintings, Housing Scheme (1979) and Village Tea Boutique, were acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne following his 2022 Melbourne exhibition.
Bhanuka Rathnayaka
Featured Artworks
Everywhere is Guernica (2025)
Bhanuka Rathnayaka, born in 1994 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is a Melbourne-based artist whose work engages with his experiences as an immigrant and a medical professional. His practice encompasses a range of media, focusing on painting, in a style akin to the animations of the 1990s.
Through his art, Rathnayaka seeks to express the contemplations of his personal journey at both an individual and societal level. His notable projects include 'Cream Soda Dreams', exhibited at the Olly Art Gallery in Auckland in 2017, and a residency at the Berlin Art Institute in 2024. He is currently working on his sophomore exhibition 'Echidna', to be exhibited at Brunswick Street Gallery.
Rathnayaka has received recognition for his contributions to both art and medicine, including the Anaesthesia Wellbeing Award Design for Auckland City Hospital in 2025. His published works include the children's book 'Doctor Penguin: George's Sore Eye' (2023) and 'Anatomy of the Neck' in the New Zealand Medical School Journal (2020).
Celina Kanae Samarakoon
Featured Artworks
We Share the Waters (Mini Series) (2026)
Kanzashi Hair Ties (2026)
Celina Kanae Samarakoon is an indigo dye artist who explores the intersections of art, tradition, and culture. Drawing deeply from her Japanese and Sri Lankan heritage, alongside her upbringing in Far North Queensland, her work investigates the connections between place, culture, and identity.
Her passion for sustainable practices and cultural preservation is reflected in her use of natural dye techniques including katazome, shibori, and batik. By weaving together her personal history and traditional techniques, Celina seeks to preserve and pass down these practices for future generations while fostering a deeper understanding of how art and culture can bridge communities in the diaspora.
Charitha Dissanayake
Featured Artworks
Once, Still (2026)
Heard Before
Charitha Dissanayake is a Melbourne-based audio artist and broadcaster. Originally from Sri Lanka, he began his professional journey as a graphic designer before evolving into a multidisciplinary creative.
His current work explores the intersection of sound and media, blending his background in visual design with his extensive experience in broadcasting.
David Lee Pereira
Featured Artworks
Found a place to grow
David Lee Pereira is a practicing visual artist whose paintings, illustrations, large-scale murals, and public installations delve into the fluidity of gender, sexuality, and identity, exploring these through the recurring themes of dysphoria and interpersonal relationships.
Influenced by the work of impressionist and surrealist artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Dalí, and Munch, and paying homage to baroque ikebana and Dutch still life, Pereira's floral expressions range from beautifully brutal to joyous and intimate, and are overflowing with symbolism and narrative.
Dharshi de Silva
Featured Artworks
Mettā /මෙත්තා
Dharshi de Silva is a Sri Lankan-Australian eco-print painter based on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, working under the name Hoo Gallery. Her practice begins in the natural world, pressing living botanicals onto canvas and layering earth pigments, soft pastels, and charcoal to create works that are as much an act of devotion as they are of artmaking.
Rooted in ecological philosophy, ancestral knowledge, and the slow rhythms of the natural world, her work seeks meaning in the materials themselves. Dharshi's art cannot exist without story. It is made to endure, to be passed down, and to carry the living world within it.
Dhiren Bhagwandas
Featured Artworks
Dva (2026)
Dhiren Bhagwandas (also known as Dhiren Das) is an interdisciplinary designer with a background in urban strategy, regenerative design advocacy, and industrial design innovation within urban and public projects. He works to connect the commercial design world with impact-driven projects and place-based cultural collaborations.
Dhiren founded Relative in 2013, bringing together an ecosystem of designers, architects, material makers, and construction innovators. Through this, he bridges strategic design thinking, place design, fabrication research, and circular material futures towards realising environments that accelerate systems change.
His personal work focuses on identity storytelling in relation to place, socio-economic dynamics, and material narratives. He has lived in Melbourne and London, and is of mixed Sri Lankan descent, with Sinhalese, Tamil, and Burgher ancestry.
Dhishni de Silva
Featured Artworks
Beneath the Surface (2024)
Dhishni de Silva is a Melbourne-based emerging artist whose practice explores identity, memory, intuition, and the subtle complexities of everyday life. Working across abstraction and figurative imagery, she draws inspiration from both urban and natural environments, incorporating organic forms through gestural mark-making and layered compositions.
Her work often embraces spontaneity and ambiguity, allowing ideas to emerge intuitively through process-led experimentation.
Through painting, drawing, and installation, Dhishni investigates the contrasts that shape human experience — the familiarand unfamiliar, the fabricated and organic, the visible and concealed. Her practice aims to evoke reflection and emotional connection while encouraging audiences to reconsider overlooked moments and materials within daily life.
Dishni Galkotuwe Yasamana
Featured Artworks
Fragments into Flowers: Where Differences Blossom (2025/2026)
Dishni Galkotuwe Yasamana is a practicing Solicitor and Barrister living in Sassafras, Victoria, Australia. Dishni loves flowers, and as a habit she adorns her flower vase every Sunday morning, sharing her arrangements with friends on Facebook for years.
Her passion for pressing flowers started during the COVID-19 pandemic. The hobby she began to keep herself engaged ultimately resulted in the creation of beautiful pressed flower art.
According to Dishni, flowers are the best produce of nature, with the capacity to soothe and comfort even a broken heart — she strongly believes that flowers are effective stress killers.
Kannan Arunasalam
Featured Artworks
Paper (2011)
Kerosene (2011)
Kannan Arunasalam is a British-Tamil artist and filmmaker working across documentary film, installation, and sound. His practice explores memory, resistance, and the legacies of conflict and colonialism, often grounded in long-term research with communities whose narratives have been marginalised or erased.
The Tent' (2019) was presented in his solo exhibition at Yorkshire Contemporary. 'Sri Lanka's Rebel Wife' (2021) premiered at the Frontline Club in London and was shortlisted for best documentary at the DIG Investigative Film Awards.
Kannan recently completed two feature documentaries: 'Republic of Amnesia' (2025, UK/Sri Lanka), which examines Sri Lanka's Aragalaya protest movement, and 'Possible Landscapes' (2025, US), which recently premiered at BlackStar 2025 and explores intergenerational Caribbean environmental experience.
Kiara Allis
Featured Artworks
Between the Magpie and the Koel (2026)
Sri Lanka-born, Melbourne-based designer Kiara Allis works across music, design, and community-focused creative projects. Raised across multiple countries and cities, her experiences with movement and cultural exchange continue to inform her creative perspective and approach to visual storytelling.
With a background in graphic design and art, her practice spans digital design, event visuals, branding, and multidisciplinary creative work.
Her work is influenced by underground music culture, experimental visual language, and an interest in creating immersive and community-driven experiences. Alongside her design practice, she co-runs the Melbourne-based music and arts collective Cleanfreqs, contributing to event curation and creative direction across clandestine music spaces.
Lashini Piyatunga
Featured Artworks
Yes Aunty, I like living in Australia. (2026)
Lashini Piyatunga is a photographer and visual artist based in Naarm with roots in Sri Lanka. She explores the intersection between people and place through her lens, drawing inspiration from lived experiences and human connection to land.
Straddling the line between a quiet observer and a creative curator, she conveys human stories of movement, striving to evoke raw and unfiltered emotion through bold colours and distinct imagery.
Lashini's use of various photography presentation methods invites the audience to engage with each piece in a meaningful way.
Manju Balasubramaniam
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Untitled
Manju is a registered Architect who founded her practice, Paper Boats Architects, based in Melbourne in 2024. She has over 11 years' experience working in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Sri Lanka, and is currently working on projects in Melbourne, New Zealand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Kenya.
Her practice is grounded in the belief that it is important to understand the political and social climatic conditions shaping our environments in order to create meaningful architecture. This philosophy and ethos extend to her broader forms of creative and artistic expression.
Melanie Bardolia
Featured Artworks
Resilience (2025)
Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and now based in Melbourne, Melanie Bardolia is an oil painter who loves to paint from life. Faces, places, light patterns on objects, the human figure, and the emotion evoked by colour and light inspire her to paint. Her work is bold and expressive, using a range of tools and a colourist palette to portray the subject in a painterly manner.
Her work has been exhibited in group shows in Australia.
She was a finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize at Michael Reid Art Bar in 2023, a finalist in the Still Life Prize at TACIT Galleries in 2021, and a finalist in the Southern Buoy Studio Portrait Prize in 2020 and 2019.
Miththun Krish Ramesh
Featured Artworks
Between Two Worlds (2026)
Miththun Krish Ramesh is a 12-year-old emerging young artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally from a Sri Lankan Tamil background, his artwork is inspired by identity, belonging, imagination, and his experiences growing up across different cultural environments.
Miththun has developed a strong passion for drawing and visual storytelling from a young age, with his creativity and artistic talent recognised throughout primary school.
His work often reflects curiosity, emotional sensitivity, and observations of the world around him. Through art, he explores personal experiences and cultural connections in thoughtful and expressive ways.
Mohamed Nazeer
Featured Artworks
The Kavadi Dancers
Ceremonial Lamps
Born and brought up in Sri Lanka, Mohamed Nazeer has lived and travelled across Europe, the Middle East, and North America for education and work. The rich cultures and natural beauty of his surroundings inspired him to explore his passion for art from a very early age. A self-taught artist, he has explored numerous mediums and styles and has been commissioned to paint portraits, landscapes, abstracts, and still life.
Today, his signature style is abstract acrylics — a love that grew from the freedom to use a broad spectrum of colours to capture the energy and form of the subjects that intrigued him.
Mohamed has exhibited at the Waverley Art Society and at the Islamic Museum of Australia in Thornbury. Kaleidoscope was his solo exhibition in March 2018 at The Highway Gallery, Mount Waverley.
Neleisha Weerasinghe
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Flying Kites in Paddy Field
Neleisha Weerasinghe is a Sri Lankan artist known for her expressive and evocative landscapes that capture the lush tropical surroundings of her island. Her signature strokes of liberally applied thick and luscious oil or acrylic paint create a heightened experience of the subjects she brings to life on canvas.
The nuances of her work are often inspired by the abundant natural scenery of her home country.
The personal touch that underscores her work is the unique and sometimes unconventional colour combinations and intuitive compositions that are not intended to be representational, but evocative. Her work is often described as aesthetically beautiful and expressive.
Nuwan Thenuwara
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Casa Sil Matha
With hearts filled with respect and devotion, the faithful welcome the venerable monk as he enters to share the timeless wisdom of the Dhamma
Nuwan Thenuwara was born on 27 August 1963 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He completed a four-year jewellery design diploma approved under the Belgian government and was subsequently appointed as a lecturer in jewellery design.
His art extends beyond the brush — his conceptualisation and professional photography skills led him to the field of advertising, where he worked in renowned agencies in Sri Lanka and overseas, rising to the position of Creative Director. He has also worked as an artist, illustrator, and art director in Belgium, Singapore, Malaysia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.
Thenuwara has since opened his own art gallery and conducts seminars, workshops, and exhibitions. He is known for his unmatched skill in figure drawing, with lifestyle as a central theme across many of his creations.
Shini Pararajasingham
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Searching (2025)
Shini Pararajasingham is the Director of Off the Kerb Gallery, where she oversees the strategic and artistic direction of exhibitions contributing to Melbourne's vibrant art scene. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Monash University (2003) and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Business Marketing from Monash University (1998).
Shini has been a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize (2005), the Toyota Community Spirit Award (2006), and the She Series Award at Walker Street Gallery (2006), and was the recipient of the Prato Italy Travelling Scholarship (2002).
She has exhibitedinternationally in Vienna, Prato, and Colombo, and continues to make and exhibit her work in Melbourne.
Thurkadevi Krishnasamy
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Waiting for Return (2026)
Thurkadevi (Krish) Krishnasamy is a Sri Lankan Tamil multidisciplinary practitioner whose work explores themes of memory, displacement, identity, trauma, and belonging. Drawing from lived experiences of migration, conflict, and community, her artistic practice uses sketching and visual storytelling as reflective and emotional forms of expression.
While her artwork has not been publicly exhibited previously, elements of her sketch work formed part of her Master's dissertation, where art was used to engage with narratives of lived experience and healing.
Now based in Melbourne, her work continues to examine the intersections of culture, migration, intergenerational memory, and resilience through intimate and socially grounded visual narratives.
W. Molligoda
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Lady with Guitar (1996)
Wellington Molligoda was a Sri Lankan-born artist who migrated to Australia with his family in 1984. Following a career in electronics, he developed a passion for digital art, creating works that reflected his creativity and lifelong curiosity.
His artworks were exhibited at the Walker Street Gallery in Dandenong, and he remained dedicated to his artistic practice throughout his later years.
Wellington Molligoda passed away in his nineties, leaving behind a legacy of creativity and artistic exploration.
Velayudan Jayachithra
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Life behind bottles
With over 26 years of experience, Velayudan Jayachithra is a women’s and human rights activist focused on challenging gender discrimination and violence against women.
She has engaged in peace initiatives with diverse women and leadership in war-affected border villages, particularly in Polonnaruwa and other districts and network organisations in Sri Lanka.
As a skilled visual media practitioner, she develops alternative media to shift harmful social norms in society. She believes art is one of the most powerful media for raising social awareness and challenging psychological perspectives. She completed a certificate course at the Thrivarna Art Academy, Colombo, in 2017
Vasantha Srinath Kurukulasuriya
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Memory, Survival and the natural world
Vasantha Srinath Kurukulasuriya is a Melbourne-based Sri Lankan portrait artist whose work focuses on capturing people, culture, and identity through finely rendered oil paintings and portraits.
His artworks have been exhibited within the Sri Lankan Australian community and are particularly noted for their depictions of Sri Lankan Veddah and Australian Aboriginal subjects. (Art work not for sale)
Asha Fernando
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Morning Sunrise
Abandoned Beauty
Asha Karawugodage Fernando is originally from Sri Lanka and is now an Australian citizen. She is married, and together with her loving husband has raised three sons. They are blessed with wonderful daughters-in-law and adorable grandchildren. Asha works as a Registered Nurse in Victoria.
Having had no prior experience with art, it was during the COVID-19 isolation period that Asha first began experimenting with bottle painting. Those early experiments sparked a passion that has since grown into both a cherished hobby and a therapeutic practice.
A self-taught artist, Asha has participated in several art exhibitions, with her paintings displayed at a City Council venue and a local library.
desh Balasubramaniam
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Balas’ Group
desh Balasubramaniam is the founder of Ondru and Nūl, working at the intersection of community development, peacebuilding, and creative practice. Ondru is a Melbourne-based not-for-profit that builds community through pioneering art projects, fostering a greater understanding of the human condition, inspiring discussion, and enabling reconciliation. Nūl is an international peacebuilding and community building organisation working across Sri Lanka to support communities rebuild.
Uprooted from a war-torn Sri Lanka as a child and replanted in New Zealand, desh carries his training as a lawyer and his lived experience of displacement into work spanning art, advocacy, education, and community building, constantly reshaping itself around the notion of home and what it means to create it again and again. He is also a lecturer at Victoria University in community development.
Balas’ Group takes its name from his father’s timber workshop in Sri Lanka, a place of sawdust and sunlight where desh spent his childhood tinkering among offcuts and tools, learning the quiet pleasure of making something with his hands. Destroyed in the conflict that scattered his family across the world, the work carries both truths at once: the joy of childhood and connection, and the rupture of a home and lives undone by war.
Artwork by Barney Rathnayaka
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