For internationally acclaimed artist Anoma Wijewardene, art has never merely been about aesthetics. It has always been an act of excavation, of memory, fracture, identity, grief, healing, and the fragile tensions that exist between destruction and renewal. Across decades of work spanning painting, installation, sculpture, digital media, video, sustainability, and activism, Anoma has built a visual language that feels at once deeply intimate and globally urgent.
Having exhibited at prestigious international platforms including the Venice Biennale at Palazzo Bembo through the European Cultural Centre in 2019 and at Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery in 2016, her artwork has garnered solo shows across Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, the Maldives, Dubai, London. Yet despite this international recognition, her artistic voice remains profoundly human, vulnerable, and emotionally unguarded.
After studying at the iconic Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London and working in the United Kingdom for nearly three decades as a designer, artist and lecturer, Anoma now divides her time between London and Sri Lanka, where her studio practice continues to evolve through emotionally layered mixed media paintings, digital works, sculpture installations and video art. Her works often feel less like static images and more like living psychological landscapes. Boats, rivers, fractured figures, pathways, wounds, and crevices emerge and disappear within heavily textured surfaces, inviting viewers into meditations on impermanence, reconciliation, existential anxiety, climate collapse, healing, and the restless search for meaning.
