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Anushiya Sundaralingam

Anushiya Sundaralingam is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. She works in both two and three dimensions, creating paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and installations. Experimenting with materials, approaches and subject matter is at the core of her practice. Her work is influenced by the notion of a ‘self’ in transition, as well as ideas and challenges related to identity and belonging. Through her work she explores her relationship with the space in which she finds herself, and how natural and cultural environments can shape her sense of self and her connections to places. She works with a range of media to reflect the intricate and layered nature of identity, belonging and place.
Anushiya Sundaralingam is originally from Sri Lanka and moved to Belfast in the 1990s. She is an associate member of the Royal Ulster Academy and has won awards for her artistic merit. She has also extensively exhibited across Ireland and internationally (Sri Lanka, Australia, Spain, and US among others). Her artworks were often commissioned and are held in private and public collections (including of the Arts Council NI).
Interview - Anushiya Sundaralingam talks about here work and her solo exhibition 'Iyarkai' (Nature) at Gallery 545 (Summer 2020).

Bio

BASED in Belfast (originally from Sri Lanka)

EDUCATION

1998 BA (Hons.) degree in Fine Applied Arts, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

AWARDS

2022 Residency Award, Tyrone Guthrie Cente, Annaghmakerri, Newbliss, Ireland
2017 Anna Cheyne Visual Arts Award, Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, N. Ireland
2009 FE McWilliam Award for Sculpture, FE McWilliam Gallery, Bambridge, N. Ireland
1998 Belfast Litho Printers Awards (for the most outstanding original print), N. Ireland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 'Iyarkai' (Nature), Gallery 545 Online, Northern Ireland
2019 ‘Marankai’, Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Limavady, N. Ireland
2016 “Nothing Stays Still”, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland
2014 “Root”, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland
2013 “Root”, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, N. Ireland
2011 “Moving Through”, Gympie Regional Gallery, QLD, Australia
2010 “North to North”, Arts for All, Belfast, N. Ireland 2009
2008 “New Work”, Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim & Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland
2007 “Maram”, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
2003 "Lifeline II", Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland
2003 “Lifelines”, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, N. Ireland
2001 “Waiting for Moments”, Quails, Banbridge, N. Ireland
2001 “Jamboree”, Waterfront Hall, Belfast & Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, N. Ireland
1999 “Inherited Ideas”, Harmony Hill Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland
1998 “Culture Unfolded”, Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, N. Ireland
1989 Chavakachri Hall, Sri Lanka

SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 - 2016 ‘Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition', Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2023, 2022, 2020, 2019 'Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland #1, 2, 3 & 4', Gallery 545 at the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, Gallery 545 online & Gallery 545 at the Sea Holly Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
2022 ‘Future/Forward’, QSS Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland & MART, Dublin, Ireland
2021, 2020, 2018 'Gallery 545 Group Exhibition', Gallery 545, Belfast, N. Ireland
2019 ‘Big Award’, Cage Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2019 ‘Impressions Printmaking Biennial’, Galway, Ireland
2019 ‘Where You Are Lost, We Are Sídhe’, Engage Art Studios, Galway, Ireland
2019 ‘A Timeless Heritage’, TRC, Surbiton, London, England
2019, 2017, ‘Anna Cheyne Biennial Award Exhibition’, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland
2018 ‘Interwoven’, part of the Linen Biennale, Cotton Court Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
2018, 2017 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Dublin, Ireland

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2021 Northern Ireland Civil Service Collection
2021 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection

ART COMMISSIONS for corporate clients, local councils, hospitals and other organisations in the public sector.

2010 Beech Hall Centre, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, N. Ireland
2008 Grove Health & Well-Being Centre, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, N. Ireland
2007 Carlisle Health & Well Being Centre, N. Ireland
2007 Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry, N. Ireland
2005 Antrim Borough Council, N. Ireland
2004 Mater Hospital, Belfast, N. Ireland
2003 'Carvills', Old Baker Court, Belfast, N. Ireland
2001 Belfast Festival at Queen’s, N. Ireland
2000 Mater Hospital, Belfast, N. Ireland
2000 Artworks for the Theatre Suite, The Royal Hospital, Belfast, N. Ireland
2000 Hastings Hotel, Belfast, N. Ireland
1999 Artworks for Theatre Suite, The Royal Hospital, Belfast
1999 Grant Department of Natural Resources-Canadian Forces, Canada
1999 Canadian Forces, Newfoundland, Canada
1999 Lisburn Borough Council, Lisburn, N. Ireland