Adrift: Anushiya Sundaralingam

Piercing the canvas with a deafening silence, the memory of departure shapes Anushiya Sundaralingam’s  body of work, unraveling itself like an odyssey that parallels the turbulences contained within life itself. Adrift wades through the quagmire of migration prompted by civil unrest with a poetic lens. The artist’s works are grounded in a deeply personal experience of leaving behind her homeland amidst the political instability in Sri Lanka. Anushiya’s training as a printmaker seeps into her practice, as she shifts between collage, photography and painting. The evocative language inherent to the medium imbues her work with an immediacy and tension, underpinning the grief and hope of people living in conflict zones across continents.