Vishmi Helaratne
Biography
Their practice entwines painting, sculpture, drawing, and hospitality methods, investigating notions around the private and public realities of cross-cultural identity within the migrant experience. They specifically aim to question how sensory languages within painting and sculpture communicate and expose invisible, ancient, and regenerative ways of story-telling. Helaratne relies upon and acts intensely through the personal by regurgitating a connective and reflective mode of practice between modernity and preserving tradition.
Works
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untitled, 2025 -
Chocolate Fish , 2025
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Daddy, 2024
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The Grass is Bleeding and So Is My Heart, 2024 Sold
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Proofing blue, 2024 Sold
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Puppy Dog, 2024 Sold
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My Kundalini, 2024
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Them, 2024 Sold
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Tables, 2024
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spoon, 2024
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soap, 2024 Sold
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allow all cookies, 2023
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System Preferences, 2023 Sold
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Self Portrait
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Chocolate Fish
Exhibitions
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Catfish
21 Jul - 4 Aug 2026Cat Fish swims between worlds. It begins with two familiar companions of art and imagination: cats and fish, creatures that have long occupied a rich place within art history’s visual...Read more -
Aotearoa Art Fair 2025
1 - 4 May 2025Föenander Galleries is presenting a series of new works by leading contemporary practitioners, each of them renowned for their exceptional skill and strong conceptual foundation. While their practices are diverse,...Read more -
The Daylight Show
6 - 24 Dec 2024The Daylight Show | 13 Emerging Artists “[It is] the interaction of the onlooker which makes the painting…It’s always based on the two poles, the onlooker and the maker, and...Read more -
Vishmi Helaratne - Holy Crops
31 May - 26 Jun 2024Holy Crops Vishmi Helaratne “Holy Crops presents an intimate series of sculptural paintings by Vishmi Helaratne, the presentation offers an emotion of their fluid ambiguity and forecasts a sense of...Read more
