Aloka Bandara Jayatilleke is an artist and sculptor from Sri Lanka who hails from the Northwestern Province of the island. He preferred the artistic life from his young days and due to this, he chose to continue with art for his higher education as well. In 2006, he was selected for a two-year program to study museum item replication and upon its successful completion in 2008, he graduated from the University of Kelaniya.  In 2010, he enrolled in Ancient Animal Science  and subsequently, in Murals and Sculpture Conservation at the Post Graduate Institute of University of Kelaniya. Aloka has been employed at the Department of Archeology as a Murals and Paintings Conservation Officer since 2012.

Salome Nanayakkara is a mixed media artist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her work focuses mostly on using reclaimed, discarded and found objects. She completed her Masters in Counseling and Psychosocial work from the University of Colombo and currently works full time as a psychotherapist. Salome's assemblage art and sculptures are informed by her therapy practice and explore ideas of identity, emotion, healing and repair work. Her fascination for insects has led to the creation of what she calls ‘mothbots and copperflies ‘ life sized delicate insect sculptures made with metal, clay and watch parts. In her more recent work however, which also draws inspiration from insects, she uses clusters of these mini sculptures in a series of metaphorical landscapes and scenes to recreate memories from her past, which were once painful, but now have been reinterpreted and reframed to become something of beauty.

Randika exploits the language of soft sculptures that was pioneered by women artists like Yayoi Kusama, Eva Hesse, and Sarah Lucas, to interrogate the plastic quality of thoughts and in the process give us a glimpse into her own quirky imagination. Her work begins as scribbles, sketches, and incoherent phrases, before gradually taking the shape of tiny clay Sculptures, metamorphosing finally into fabric sculptures as she explores the very nature of thoughts.

Prageeth Manohansa sculptural pieces transform banal scrap metal into stunning images of life and beauty that breathe with movement and emotion, capturing the same dynamic spirit of his charcoal drawings on paper.
Manohansa (b. 1976, Gampaha, Sri Lanka) is known for his interpretations of scrap metal to create human and animal figures that are filled with robust energy. He completed his BFA in Sculpture from the University of Kelaniya in 2005. The artist has presented solo exhibitions of his work at Gallerie Steph, Singapore (2012) and Saskia Fernando Gallery, Sri Lanka (2014) besides being a part of group shows in London, Dubai and India.

Inkaran’s practice employs materials and techniques used in treating wounds and healing pain, to articulate the physical and mental agony of war that razed his hometown in Vanni. The twisted, gnarly sculptures, reminiscent of human ribcages, are both an expression of pain and attempts at healing. Wrapping, bandaging and casting thus become a process through which the sculptor reconciles the recurring anxiety of surveillance, suspicion, threats and constant military presence.