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OPEN STUDIO SESSION | Hashan Cooray
June 25, 2020 This new format of OPEN STUDIO SESSIONS features Hashan Cooray whose exhibition 'Desire' is online at www.saskiafernandogallery.com from 19 June... Read more -
Adding A Bit Of Colour In These Bleak Times
Sunday Times April 12, 2020 orton Place is a hive of activity at all times, from the bustle of morning traffic to the throngs of... Read more -
Colomboscope 2021
Language is Migrant April 1, 2020 Colomboscope is thrilled to announce the festival title of its 7th edition “language is migrant” drawing from the invocation by... Read more -
Pakkiarajah Pushpakanthan interview with the Indian Curator
Design India 116 April 1, 2020 My art grapples with the emotional torture families endure as their questions perditions, unanswered. Haunting memories, imagination and fear fill... Read more
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Chandraguptha Thenuwara @ Lunuganga
22 March 2020 February 22, 2020 Lunuganga was created by Geoffrey Bawa over a period of 40 years and is considered to be a seminal expression... Read more -
Firi Rahman & We Are From Here Project
Vice | January 2020 February 21, 2020 To artist Firi Rahman, Slave Island is home. He recalled stories his grandmother told him of gang wars, laundry communities... Read more -
Nations Trust Bank Private Banking partners with Saskia Fernando Gallery
Financial Times December 9, 2019 Nations Trust Bank Private Banking has always been the gold standard for affluent segment banking propositions in Sri Lanka, offering... Read more -
Muvindu Binoy launches 'Kotta Baba (Pillow Talk)' @ Goethe Institut
December 2019 December 1, 2019 Digital Artist and Film Director Muvindu Binoy launches 'Kotta Baba (Pillow Talk)' featuring starring Pamuditha Zen Anjana, Samanalee Fonseka and... Read more
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Hashan Cooray | Best of 2019
ARTRA Magazine November 2019 November 27, 2019 ARTRA celebrates artist Hashan Cooray for his interpretation and expression for society’s darker reality, absent of the sugar-coated perspectives and... Read more -
Sri Lanka: Shanth Fernando’s home is possibly the finest art gallery you’ll ever see
Architectural Digest India November 14, 2019 To the discerning eye, the style of his home carries the monochrome, understated identity of Paradise Road, but it is... Read more -
Saskia Fernando New Establishment 100
Echelon Magazine November 4, 2019 In its decade-long existence, the Saskia Fernando Gallery has been dismantling stereotypes about the creative industries, working to strengthen the... Read more -
Fabienne Francotte @ Space A Nepal
October 2019 October 29, 2019 Space A, for interdisciplinary art practice, was formed in 2008 with the involvement of Visual Artist, Interior Designer, Jewelry Designer,... Read more
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Jagath Weerasinghe @ Davidson College Galleries
October 2019 - December 2019 October 29, 2019 Because of these visceral encounters with inhumanity, cruelty, and genocide, Weerasinghe still draws on these themes in his current work.... Read more -
Abdul Halik Azeez @ Ishara Art Foundation
September 12 - December 7, 2019 September 12, 2019 Body Building includes over ninety works by artists from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and France. As the play on words... Read more -
ய Connect: Wired Design
in PechaKucha with hatch and Saskia Fernando Gallery September 3, 2019 Born out of a collaboration between Saskia Fernando Gallery and hatch Sri Lanka , this debut PechaKucha for art and... Read more -
Five @ Baik Art Los Angeles
June 2019 - August 2019 June 30, 2019 In the spirit of remembrance, the gallery has invited all of the artists previously involved with our programs to exhibit... Read more
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When Stillness Came Rushing In: Sri Lanka’s Artistic Community Responds to the Easter Attacks
Frieze May 2019 May 15, 2019 By Natasha Ginwala with contributions from Abdul Halik Azeez (@Colombedouin), Muvindu Binoy, Sandev Handy, We Are From Here, Imaad Majeed... Read more -
Priyantha Udagedara | Bunka Award
March 2019 March 25, 2019 After a careful screening and examination by the selection committee comprising of renowned personalities in the areas of culture, art... Read more -
Less is More
The Morning January 13, 2019 Saskia established Saskia Fernando Gallery 10 years ago and her online gallery, Artspace curated by her, presents a purchasable catalogue... Read more -
Saskia Pintelon @ Museum Dhont-Dhaenens
January 2019 - May 2019 January 5, 2019 With Fringe, in the spring of 2019, the museum Dhondt-Dhaenens brings together the work of three painters: the Australian Jenny... Read more
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Difference Framing
Sanjana Hattotuwa May 25, 2018 “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is... Read more -
DELVING INTO THE DEPTHS OF ART PROFESSIONALISM
ARTRA Magazine April 1, 2018 Cover personality Saskia Fernando, Gallerist of Saskia Fernando Gallery, is instrumental in professionalizing and significantly contributing to the growth of... Read more -
Re-Approaching the Orient
Sandev Handy December 7, 2017 Orientalism by Priyantha Udagedara, is a body of work that traverses between beauty and ugliness while simultaneously questioning the formation... Read more -
Strangers and Symbols
in Abdul Halik Azeez’s and Raki Nikahetiya’s joint exhibition Coast and Concrete | Sandev Handy October 28, 2017 How are we to put a finger on our present time? It seems as though Sri Lanka is hungry and... Read more
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MEET THE SISTERS WHO ARE LEADING SRI LANKA’S CREATIVE RENAISSANCE
Verve Magazine April 11, 2017 Number 41 Horton Place is what many refer to as Colombo’s creative nerve centre, with its unmistakably stark and minimalist... Read more -
An Interview With Saskia Fernando of Saskia Fernando Gallery
The Artling September 7, 2016 A typical day for me is… I have no typical day and try to keep it that way. I'm between... Read more -
Back to a future
Lufthansa Magazine September 4, 2016 The mood on the art scene is also euphoric at present. “We are seeing collectors and curators coming in from... Read more -
The future was: Wallpaper* explores Art Dubai 2016
Wallpaper* Magazine March 31, 2016 Three decades ago, when Leila Heller opened her New York gallery with a young Iranian American artist, she asked him... Read more
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Art Dubai 2016: All Roads Connect
Harpers Bazaar Arabia March 13, 2016 Art Dubai 2016 seems to be looking in every direction at once. This year, the fair reflects on its past... Read more -
Sri Lankan Contemporary Art
The White Review No.2 | Jospehine Breese June 1, 2011 SRI LANKA HAS DEVELOPED A THRIVING, VITAL CONTEMPORARY ART SCENE over the past twenty years. New artists are emerging to... Read more -
A Bright Spot Emerges in Postwar Colombo, Sri Lanka
New York Times May 1, 2009 Sri Lankan artists like Prageeth Manohansa and Dumith Kulasekara, who show at this sleek spot owned by Ms. Fernando (at... Read more
