Dumith Kulasekara: Visual Arts Practice, Research & Writing.

In-Between Matter and Materiality curatorial note In-Between Matter and Materiality is an exhibition of a new body of work created by the students at the final level in the department of painting. The exhibition highlights a group of young artists’ approaches to experimentation with matter and materiality in their studio practice. The studio practice has allowed them to find the methodologies and possibilities for the evolution of their works. The body of work results from the process evolved from the act of probing, questioning, responding, situating, constructing and deconstructing different matters and materials encountered by these young artists. This collection of work displayed on the three floors in the JDA Perera Gallery implies a character of visual poetry present in every work and its relationship to the whole body of work. Such intimacy among the works evokes a sense of order and disorder, and differences and repetitions in the visual language developed by each artist. The v