We are pleased to announce our esteemed A4A Production Fund judge panel consisting of Professor Jagath Weerasinghe, Artist and Archaeologist, Nour Aslam, Executive Director of Art South Asia Project and Sandev Handy, Curator Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka.
Professor Jagath Weerasinghe is an Artist and Archeologist and has been pivotal to contemporary Sri Lankan art and its development since the early 1990s. He is the co-founder of the Theertha Collective and the moving force behind collaborations such as the Colombo Art Biennale. His work has been featured at the Singapore Art Biennale (2006), Art Dubai (2018), and Aicon Gallery, New York (2017). His work belongs to collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), USA and the Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan.
Sandev Handy is a curator, artist and art educator based in Colombo. He serves as Curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka, is one part of an artist collective called the Packet, and one part of an independent research studio, between Zurich, Makassar, Karachi and Colombo called the Studio for Memory Politics together with Vera Ryser, Angela Wittwer and Aziz Sohail. His research and practice cross fugitive pedagogies, Afro-Asian world-building and networks of solidarities, and botanical and bureaucratic naturalisms.
Nour Aslam is the Executive Director of ASAP. Nour has worked in the commercial and non-commercial art world, with a particular focus on modern and contemporary South Asian Art. She previously worked at Bonhams Auction House in the South Asian Art department, but also specialised in Middle Eastern and Turkish Art.
The grantees will be announced by the second week of November.