Christopher Kulendran Thomas

Christopher Kulendran Thomas is engaged in an ongoing project called When Platitudes Become Form.

Thomas acquires drawings, paintings and sculptures from Sri Lanka’s most prominent galleries by leading contemporary Sri Lankan artists and recalibrates them into intriguing mixed media pieces that adhere to Western, rather than Asian, notion of the contemporary. Thomas’ work is not only a comment on notions of art market internationalism and the definition of contemporary, modern, postmodern, historical, Western and Eastern, but fundamentally addresses how a burgeoning art market can be a response to and a symbol of political oppression, state sponsored exploitation and corporate globalization.

Exhibited at Griffin Gallery in Young Gods in January 2013.

BORN

1979 London, UK

EDUCATION

MFA Fine Art –Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2012

PG Dip Photography – London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 2008

BA Media & Communication – Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2001

(Last updated 11.12.2014)