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Bio

Co-Founder Kico Design Studio and Push Skateboards.

Featured Designer Sri Lanka Design Festival 2021

Creative Entrepreneur & a Visual Artist living and working in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

BA Visual Communication University of Northumbria 2012.

My work lies at the intersection of art, graphic design, Content creation & contemporary illustration. It takes the form of murals, videography, typography, prints and objects.

Things around my everyday life which impacts culture, lifestyle, colors & equality is what inspires me to create.

My work involves documenting, adopting, introducing and deconstructing commonly seen subjects, colors through the act of drawing, documenting, animaton and design.

📈I take Art form into the commercial space and adds value to it by using my entrepreneurial nature.

💣 Some of my work include
Nike Mural (2017), Iron man 70.3 (content creation, 2018), US embassy (gratuities, 2020), Big Bad Wolf Book Fair (content creation, 2017/2018), UNDP (content creation, 2017/2018/2019/2020) and Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (content creation, 2018). I exhibited at Imago Mundi Re-imagining Ceylon in 2016.

I’m currently working on an art project of creating Art & Interior Toys.

🛹 I Co- founded Push SkateBoards (currently on hiatus) – Sri Lanka’s 1st skateboarding brand which introduced skating culture to Sri Lanka through art and merchandise.

Nominee for the “Asia-Pacific Young Entrepreneur Award 2016 Taipei, Taiwan ” awarded by CACCI.

Represented Sri Lanka in the “Sri Lanka: Precious Isle” production by Terra Mater Studios
In Vienna, Austria which is a subsidiary company of Red Bull.