Umanga Samarasinghe on Clubhouse

Bio

🏝 Sri Lankan born, Colombo based Visual Artist, Muralist and a Photographer👩🏻‍🎨📸

✨Creative Director/ Co- Founder at Kings Coconut Design studio✨

🎪 My work is placed between fine art, urban art and pop-culture, using humour to reference and question her contemporary milieu. 🪁

🧩 I work across a multitude of forms including canvases, large scale murals (indoor and outside), apparel, design, print, photography and video.
I'm inspired by the local culture, vintage posters, travel experiences and personal observations. 🐵

🍀 Work collaborations: Nike (2017), Iron man (2018), US embassy(2020) , Big Bad Wolf Book Fair Malaysia (2017/2018), Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (2018)👜

👀 Photographer/Videographer for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Volunteers (UNV) (2017/2018/2019/2020) 🐜

Exhibited at Imago Mundi Re-imagining Ceylon in 2016🎨

Fashion editorials Malvie Magazine - France 2020 📷

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

🎥 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.

🌸I believe that Art can act as an agent to change the world, by being the catalyst to allow people to change their worlds.🌍