Following Uncle George - Facing Maha

Facing Maha

Pro Helvetia Art Residency Award 2020. Layla Gonaduwa sets up studio residency practice on the move, for the coming 3 months. The Art that comes forth will be from this foundation and her collective repository on the run, of images, drawings, writings, thoughts and stories on flora & fauna, memory and human interest stories on Migration that can be worked together. As daunting and exciting as the Maha Monsoon looming ahead.

    • 20 Aug 2020

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    Stachytarpheta, Butterflies and 'Conciliation Biology'

    "One of the tenets of conservation management holds that alien species are ecologically harmful. But a new study is pointing to research that demonstrates that some non-native plants and animals can have beneficial impacts"

    "It’s time to think differently about invasive species. Conservation biologists have to set aside purist ideas about restoring ecosystems to some pre-human state. In cases where habitats have been radically altered, “removing alien species just because they are alien is futile.”

    Visit article by Carl Zimmerman @

    https://e360.yale.edu/features/alien_species_reconsidered_finding_a_value_in_non-natives
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    About The Artist:

    Recipient of Pro Helvetia Residency Award 2020

    A self taught Interdisciplinary Visual Artist journeying through a wide range of material. Fired Enamel to Text. Paint to Sculpture. Mixed media installations to Woodcut Print.

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    With a cathartic creative process inspired by the politics of human perception, corporeal memory and ecology; my art is moving towards a more conceptual practice.

    Work History:

    Acclaimed works include, The SilverFish, a text based conceptual document and installation that deals with the fragility and ambiguous nature of written history and information. SilverFish received critical recognition both locally and internationally, and was selected for The Reading Room Exhibition in India as part of the Kochi Muziris Biennale. Previously it was exhibited at the Colombo Biennale, Delhi Literary Festival, Bangalore. Mumbai and the UK.
    Nominated by Theertha International Artists Collective for The International Artists' Residency with two acclaimed artists from Colombia and India, my installations 'Residue I & II' were site specific newspaper installations that dealt with the Temporality of Landscape of Thought.
    I have exhibited extensively both locally and internationally in Solos and Group exhibitions in Sri Lanka and overseas, Colombo Art Biennale and ColomboScope. My work can be found in Private and Public collections and spaces.