Renuka Fernando

Renuka Fernando’s practice incorporates her background in architecture, particularly how one’s body relates to surrounding space, combined with the movement, spontaneity and responsiveness of gestural painting. She has a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNSW, and Honours in Fine Arts from National Art School. Renuka has been an artist in residence at Hill End and Fowlers Gap at Broken Hill NSW. She has exhibited in Sydney, Hill End, Melbourne and Tasmania. Renuka has been a finalist in ‘One Minute Films’ at Slade University London, ’Sketchbook Project’ at Brooklyn Art Museum New York, as well as Waverley Woollahra Art Prize, Hazelhurst Works on Paper Award, Brunswick Works on Paper Award, and she won the 2010 Randwick International Women’s Day Art Prize.
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 Renuka Fernando, Studio Articulate, 2015

In Tracing Materiality Renuka will be making large-scale installations considering the drawing as acts of connection to the material world. Actively seeking the threat of the unexpected she makes work larger than her body, allowing accident and happenstance to play a leading role. Using the gallery as a studio space Renuka’s project will extend her previous continuous drawing projects by developing large scale installation drawings during the course of the exhibition, inviting visitors to observe and discuss her continuous drawing project with her.