Collector's desk - premier platform for local art connoisseurs
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Saskia Fernando Gallery and ARTRA Magazine together with Land Rover will be launching Collector's Desk, with the aim of educating and enlightening groups of eminent art connoisseurs.
Collector's Desk will be a quarterly invitee-only event that will function as a premier platform and a stepping-stone in setting standards and playing a critical role in transforming the Sri Lankan art scene, using guest speakers from the fields of visual art, performance art, design and architecture.
The main objective of Collector's Desk is to communicate about Sri Lankan art and culture to existing and aspiring art collectors. With the emergence of the Sri Lankan contemporary art scene over the past few years, organisers are keen to focus on art and design appreciation, collecting, and relations between industries.
The first edition of Collector's Desk will be taking place on December 4, 2015 with art writer and curator Jyoti Dhar. Born to Indian parents in New York, she has lived in London, Dubai and New Delhi and is currently based in Colombo. She is a contributing editor for ArtAsiaPacific Magazine and Harper's Bazaar Art Arabia.
In New Delhi, she was rapporteur and editor of ‘City as Studio 03' and ‘City as Studio 02' programmes with Sarai-CSDS as well as critic- in-residence for ‘In Context II: public.art.ecology' with Khoj International Artists' Association. In 2012 she was selected as a Forum Fellow of the Global Art Forum at Art Dubai. In 2014 she was the recipient of the ‘Emerging Art Writer of the Year' award by Forbes India.
