EXHIBITIONS

Many roads through paradise

Group Exhibition 4 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 Read more

HOUSE

29 Aug - 29 Sep 2024 Barefoot Gallery is excited to present HOUSE— a collection of interior design ideas by the designers at Barefoot. This exhibition showcases the transformative power of design and colour in living spaces. Whether you're seeking inspiration or have a passion for design, HOUSE offers lots of fabulous solutions. Featuring practical and... Read more

Strong Heart Strong Head Strong Emotions

Minal Naomi 1 - 17 Aug 2024 Strong Heart, Strong Head, Strong Emotions is a series that explores the powerful lives of 10 women from Sri Lanka, inspired by the words of Dr. Rajani Thiranagama. The resilience and power of these women encapsulate the very fabric of our society. Ranging from a celebration of creative pursuits, womanhood... Read more

One Artist Many Worlds

Anil Gamini Jayasuriya 11 - 27 Jul 2024 Step into the world of Anil Gamini Jayasuriya, a dynamic artist whose work transcended stylistic conventions to express a deep sense of emotion and curiosity. Presented through the lens of family and friends who had the privilege of knowing Anil, the exhibition offers an intimate look at Anil’s sense of... Read more

Ritualising Mutant Encounters

Chathuri Nissansala 10 Jul - 3 Aug 2024 Taking in the role of an anthropologist Chathuri Nissansala, systematically maps narratives of intergenerational trauma, ethnographic violence and gendered identity. Their work embodies a form of storytelling through objects, installation and performative activations. Through revisiting mythical pasts, old colonized tales, histories of identities as forms of encounters. Under the apprenticeship... Read more

Beneath The Canopy

Karunasiri Wijesinghe 13 Jun - 7 Jul 2024 In Beneath the Canopy, Karunasiri Wijesinghe continues his over 30 year endeavour to represent an aesthetic and spiritual exploration of Sri Lanka’s natural environment. In the works on view, the artist brings a focused gaze on aerial roots in his portraiture of trees – such as the prop roots Banyan... Read more

Homecoming

Amesh Wijesekera 16 May - 9 Jun 2024 Barefoot Gallery is excited to present Amesh Wijesekera’s solo textile art exhibition “Homecoming,” which reflects on his creative design practice through three-dimensional textile art. This body of work serves as a renaissance of Amesh's creative journey showcasing an amalgamation of knit experiments, textile printing, and dyeing methods. Amesh, a young... Read more

BODHI

Channa Ekanayake 18 Apr - 5 May 2024 Read more

Is Waiting Part of The Journey?

Nelun Harasgama 14 Mar - 7 Apr 2024 Nelun Harasgama's exhibition explores to ponder a timeless question: Is waiting an integral part of life's journey? Through a collection of minimalist paintings, each rendered solely in shades of white, the exhibition delves into the depths of anticipation and patience. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on... Read more

Whilst you were sleeping...

Elizabeth Porter 15 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 Whilst you were sleeping, In the safety & certainty of your bed, breath so quiet; soft and sweet. In the deep dark frenetic dreams begin to seep into the plans you have been making for the days ahead; That map, once so clear and organised, becomes fractured and difficult to... Read more

Way of the Forest

Colomboscope 2024 19 - 28 Jan 2024 Read more

From Celtic Land to South Asia

Padrig Morin 15 Dec 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 FROM CELTIC LAND TO SOUTH ASIA recounts the artist Padrig Morin's journey from his native Brittany to Sri Lanka passing by India and the Middle East. Padrig attempts to express through Celtic, Hindu and Middle Eastern designs, the different influences that imprinted on his mind along this journey in a... Read more

Visual Paraphrases

Sarath Chandrajeewa 24 Nov - 10 Dec 2023 I believe Visually Grounded Paraphrases (VGPs) have transformed a single visual concept capable of eliciting diverse emotions. On the visual plane of expression, this is an intuitively uncomplicated juxtaposition of various sensuous forms, shapes, texture, colours and lines. These exercises are a test for my senses and emotions. They implant... Read more

Memory Wall

Chamila Gamage 20 Oct - 12 Nov 2023 'Memory Wall' symbolises a conceptual representation of collective memories tied to significant events. In this case, the 2004 Tsunami, the 30-year Civil War, and the 2019 Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka. Rather than a tangible barricade, this 'Memory Wall' acts as symbolism for commemorating locals’ narratives, and experiences, through art.... Read more

Metamorphosis Papiliones Ceylonensis

Sanath Herath 21 Sep - 15 Oct 2023 Metamorphosis Papiliones Ceylonensis, Sanath Herath’s first solo exhibition, is centered around the metamorphosis of Sri Lankan butterflies. This endeavor celebrates the themes of change and growth. The imagery of a butterfly undergoing metamorphosis encapsulates the idea that profound beauty can emerge from the embrace of change. At its core, this... Read more

Studio Collection

Chaminda Gamage 1 - 17 Sep 2023 Chaminda began to show an interest in painting since childhood. From the early 90s he has been recognized as an upcoming force in the art arena. Due to the dedication to his art, he has received numerous awards including State award for the outstanding painter of the year, Ministry of... Read more

Running Rivers: Pilgrims of Place

Kuweni Dias Mendis and Anup Vega 27 Jul - 20 Aug 2023 Read more

Fragmented

Thabendran Krishnapriya 29 Jun - 23 Jul 2023 'As the line breaks free from the page, new relationships between drawing and the physical and social environment emerge. My drawings aim to create a secret recipe for an inner landscape of the human condition: narrative vignettes that are both alluring and mysterious. Nature and the elements existing within it... Read more

Ganeshism 5

Mahen Chanmugam 2 - 24 Jun 2023 Read more

Hang a little landscape colour

Barbara Sansoni - A retrospective 28 Apr - 28 May 2023 Read more

Menacing Landscapes

Prasad Hettiarachchi 19 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 Read more

Hammer and Nails

Anusha Gajaweera 23 Jun - 5 Jul 2022 Anusha’s “Hammer and Nails” centers around the idea of how everyday tools are both instruments of creation while also being weapons of destruction. In his art, these tools oscillate between being utensils that create beautiful, playful shapes with being symbols of unceasing violence that plague our society.
Anusha Gajaweera graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Special), University of Visual & Performing Arts, Colombo in 2008 and Master of Arts, University of Kelaniya in 2012. He has participated in many group exhibitions both locally and internationally including the Jaipur Art Summit India (2017) and Rah Residency in Iran (2019) representing Sri Lankan contemporary artists.

The general theme of his artwork centers around the social, political and institutional power in Sri Lanka, and the struggle in social strata. His previous solo exhibition—(In)complete Flowers, was at the Theertha Red Dot Gallery, Borella in 2021. This is Anusha’s first solo exhibition at Barefoot Gallery Colombo. Read more

Monsters & Mortals

Anoli Perera 26 May - 19 Jun 2022 Who are monsters and mortals? The children disfigured with burns from chemical showers sprayed from the sky; cities and entire generations of people decimated by nuclear bombs; suicide bombing of a church full of people during their Easter Sunday service; invasion and genocide in pursuit of power and creating mass... Read more

At The Cusp

Elizabeth Porter 18 Feb - 8 Mar 2020 Read more

Slave Island

Prasad Hettiarachchi 30 Jan - 16 Feb 2020 The landscapes around Slave Island and Galle Face in the City of Colombo are undergoing rapid changes. Slave Island and Galle Face are being taken over by large scale development projects with New Capital descending on old properties. Old residents are being marginalised and displaced at a rate proportionate to... Read more

ANJA - Awakening Of The Third Eye

Druvinka Madawala 9 - 26 Jan 2020 Read more

Theertha

Anoli Perera, Anura Krishantha, Anusha Gajaweera, Bandu Manamperi, Buddhika Nakandala, Danushka Marasinghe, GR Constantine, Jagath Weerasinghe, K. Pushpakumara, Lalith Manage, Liz Fernando, Menika Van Der Poorten, Pradeep Chandrasiri, Pradeep Thalawatta, 12 Dec 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 Read more

Luminous Emptiness

Nalin Indrasena 3 - 21 Oct 2019 The Barefoot Gallery is pleased to introduce artist Nalin Indrasena and his series of work Luminous Emptiness. Nalin Indrasena, a retired civil servant of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, now dedicates his full time to his own artistic practice. Over the years he has worked with Oil, Acrylics,... Read more

George Beven at 90 | Seven Decades of Art

George Beven 23 Aug - 20 Sep 2019 Read more

Walking on water: An exhibition of saris and paintings

Nelun Harasgama 21 Mar - 15 Apr 2019 Read more

This moment: Past being present, future being possibilities

Pala Pothupitiye & Somasiri Pothupitiye 6 Dec - 4 Jan 2018 Read more

The Greedy Forest

Laki Senanayake 30 Aug - 16 Sep 2018 Read more

Exclusion

Prasad Hettiarachchi 10 May - 3 Jun 2018 In a post war era, 'exclusion' is inflected and it has received certain ominance. Even though the majority is partial to development, it. has arving connotations to different social groups. The contemporary large scale development projects have failed to equally disseminate the expected outcomes to every social group, and +... Read more

Cellscapes II

Shaanea Mendis D'Silva 20 Apr - 14 May 2017 Read more

GLUEANDSTICK

Muhanned Cader 28 Feb - 19 Mar 2017 Read more

An Unbelievable Taste

Prasad Hettiarachchi 8 - 18 Oct 2015 'My first exhibition, An unbelievable Taste had the theme of Saaravita venders who are sidelined by the community. I am very sensitive towards downtrodden people in the society and their grievances'. -- Prasad Hettiarachchi Read more

Exhibition of Paintings

Mike Harridge 5 Dec 2013 - 5 Jan 2014 Read more