RAHULA.

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ARTIST INSIGHT
Rahula Tawalandana grew up in Sri Lanka. He came to India as a young man, with a group of Buddhist pilgrims
and decided to stay back to complete his Diploma in Fine Arts - Sculpture from the College of Arts, New Delhi.
His love for travel and adventure led him to a group of pilgrims who went by road till Germany. There, he met
his future employer at an art gallery. For the next 6 years he worked as a sculptor and modeler with the Medal
Factory in Bund, Germany, creating various types of medals and working with different forms of media, before
returning to India after the factory was burned down in an accident.

Next stop for Rahula was Dubai, GEMS group of schools. He joined this prestigious institution as an Arts &
Craft teacher. Helping children learn and discover the joys of creation, gave him immense satisfaction. Apart
from his responsibilities as a teacher, he was also in charge of stage decoration for musical concerts and theatri-
cal productions like Matilda, War Horse, Lion King and many, many more.

Rahula’s works have been exhibited and put on display at several places, even then the Triennal International
Exhibition in India remains his personal favourite. He currently stays in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India
with his wife, and continues to nurture his passion for sculpting and painting. He aspires to create more stunning
work for places of worship within different communities within India and everywhere else.

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 G R A D U AT I O N This portrait of an old man was awarded the first prize for best portrait while Rahula was in the final year at the College
of Art New Delhi, India in 1975(top left). A portrait of the Mahatma made specially for the Gandhi Museum in 1977(top
YEARS right). Portrait of a German gentleman made at St. Augustin, West Germany in 1983(bottom right)

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 Artwork made for the Medal Factory M E D A L F A C TO RY
G.K.Rummacher, KG,St. Augustin 3,
in West Germany from 1977 to 1983. GERMANY
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 E X H I B I T S
Solo exhibition opening ceremony graced by the
then Sri Lankan Ambassador in West Germany,
1980(top right). Art Exhibition with the Sierra Leone
Ambassador in Koln, West Germany, 1983. (Bottom
left and right)

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ABSTRACT En erg y a n d m o ti o n m a d e v i s i b l e
th ro u gh th e a b s tra ct fo r m o f ar t
A R T W O R K

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 D I E T Y
S C U L P T I N G

A ten foot high statue of

Hanumanji at Dev Nagar in
New Delhi, 1990 (top left), A
life-size Buddha statue made
in New Delhi, 1989 (bottom
left) and Ghandhara Buddha
head in India, 1990 (right)

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 Special demonstration of utilizing disposed
aluminum cans to make art. A session taken for
the students at the Al Noor Centre for Children
with Special Needs, Dubai, 2008.

T H E AT R E P RO P S D E S I G N
Masks, headgears, puppets and overall art production done for various musical
concerts and theatre productions for the GEMS group of schools Dubai and
Sharjah from 1991 to 2008. Concerts and theatre productions like Shakuntala,
Matilda, Lion King, War Horse, Almost Alice, Give a dog a bone and many more.
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 P O RT R A I T S Dr. Radhakrishnan(top left), Nelson Mandela(bottom left),
Mahatma Gandhi(top right) and Mother Teresa (bottom right)

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Buddhist Monk(top left), William Shakespeare P O RT R A I T S
(top right) and Albert Einstien (bottom left and right)

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 MASKS
African and Red Indian masks
created for the Wellington
School, Dubai in 2007.

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 GARDEN A R T
Garden artworks for school gardens
in Dubai and Sharjah, 2013-2016

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