EXHIBITIONS

Stories Within Stories

Prasad Hettiarachchi 28 Nov 2024 - 4 Jan 2025 In Stories Within Stories, Prasad Hettiarachchi offers a profound perspective on how minor narratives enrich and challenge grand narratives. By emphasizing the importance of examining these overlooked or marginalized stories, he encourages us to rethink the dominant narratives that often shape collective understanding. His approach underlines how grand narratives derive meaning, direction, and legitimacy from these minor stories, even while frequently overshadowing or silencing them. Read more

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 the role of waiting... 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