Menika van der Poorten
Artistic Advisory Board + Artistic Advisory Board & Arts Manager • Colombo Art Biennale + Galle Music Festival • female
Menika van der Poorten combines being a single parent of two teenage sons with working in arts management, photography and photography education. She has a long history of working with Public Art institutes, cultural organizations and artists’ projects in Sri Lanka and internationally. Menika worked in London as an Arts/events officer; and Director at Women’s Photography Collective and women’s publishing house. More recently, she has been a co-curator and exhibition coordinator for the British Library touring exhibition ‘A Return to Sri Lanka’. Menika was one of the selected artists at the Colombo Art Biennale 2012.
Rajagiriya Srilanka
Photography