Fish Skeleton
Fish Skeleton, featured in the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands’ 2013 exhibition Art of Assemblage, is a sculpture made from recycled domestic materials and car parts. Throughout the twentieth century, artists employed trash materials as part of the Modernist revolt against the use of traditional materials in fine art. Here Sanjeewa draws attention to the Islands’ longstanding reliance on the ocean for sustenance and the increasing environmental pressures that threaten this relationship.
About the Artist
Rasitha Sanjeewa
b. 1972
Sanjeewa, from Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka, began his professional career as a culinary artist. He has been a regular participant in various presentations by the George Keyt Foundation in Sri Lanka, where he received the Young Artist of the Year award in 2001. Sanjeewa moved to the Cayman Islands in the late 2000s and came to prominence by winning First Prize in the NGCI’s 2012 Ogier Art Award. His work is featured in Art of the Cayman Islands, the Islands’ first formal art history (Scala Fine Art Publishers Ltd.: Fall 2016). Sanjeewa’s work was shown at the KAABOO Cayman Festival (2019) and in the NGCI exhibitions Art of Assemblage (2013) and All Access (2015).
