Where the work
has travelled.
Exhibitions, workshops, talks, and recognition. Each entry is tagged with the practices it most engaged — cloth, dye and scent, sound, or curation — though most projects move across more than one.
Surface Design Show
London, UK, 3–5 Feb. 2026.
S.O.S — Save Our Seas presented with Green Grads at Surface Design Show, situating the work within a curated platform for environmentally conscious graduate design.
HK Fashion Summit
Hong Kong, 4 Dec. 2025.
Keynote, Artivism to Change the Narrative of Fast Fashion. The talk argued for storytelling and craft as instruments for shifting the dominant logic of the industry, not as decoration around it.
Berlin Science Week
Berlin, Germany, 6 Nov. 2025.
Sea Change, in dialogue with On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin. A public upcycling workshop that asked participants to think about their own garments in relation to waterways, rivers, and the ocean system that holds them.
London Design Festival
London, UK, 13–21 Sep. 2025.
Work shown in Tender Revolution, the Royal College of Art's exhibition at Brompton Design District for London Design Festival. The exhibition framed design through care, attention, and renewal rather than novelty.
RCA Fashion Expo
London, UK, 19 Jul. 2025.
A textile-led exhibition expanding S.O.S as a body of research connecting marine ecology and clothing. The work was shown as a continuing inquiry rather than as a finished collection.
European Youth Event
Strasbourg, France, 13–14 Jun. 2025.
Lead artist on Unity Sail, a single textile work made collaboratively by around 130 young people from across Europe. Each participant worked on a fragment that mattered to them; the finished sail was meant to look visibly authored by many hands.
UN Ocean Conference
Nice, France, 2–13 Jun. 2025.
In the conference's Engage Area, S.O.S — Save Our Seas combined cyanotype textiles, scent profiles, and field recordings in a single installation. Scientists were among the audiences that stayed longest with the work.
RCA SustainLAB
London, UK, 29 Apr.–2 May 2025.
An exhibition of S.O.S — Save Our Seas at the Royal College of Art's SustainLAB programme. Cyanotype textiles shown alongside the ecological research that produced them.
SEAJunction
Bangkok, Thailand, 26 Apr. 2025.
A public cyanotype workshop and mini-exhibition. Participants learned solar printing as a tactile form of public learning about ocean pollution and textile waste.
SLDF
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8–10 Nov. 2024. S.O.S primered to Sri Lanka in a pilot presentation and workshop series at Sri Lanka Design Festival, focused on waste, repair, and local fashion systems. The first time the work was shown in the country where its questions began.
MBFWSL
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 7–10 Nov. 2024.
The S.O.S pilot runway used upcycled and zero-waste garments to question fashion’s speed, excess, and responsibility.
Underlands
Berlin, Germany, 17-23 Jun. 2024.
Group exhibition co-created with the WEBS Collective during Refugee Week, working with belonging, migration, and decolonial knowledge through collaborative practice.
LV Graduates Initiative
Paris, France, Apr. 2024.
Finalist in the Louis Vuitton Accessories Design Graduates Initiative graduate platform recognising design potential in accessories through concept strength, craft sensitivity, and development clarity.
Perfect 10
London, UK, Feb. 2024.
Shortlisted finalist under the 2024 theme Perfect 10, developing eyewear from ten principles of good design for exhibition at 100% Optical.
International Flavors & Fragrances
London, UK, Jan. 2024.
Winner for Ceremony of Life, a project exploring scent, ritual, and material storytelling through an interdisciplinary design lens.
Redress Design Award
Hong Kong, Sep. 2023.
Runner-up with kaeli — resurgence, a collection responding to the X-Press Pearl marine disaster off the Sri Lankan coast. The largest sustainable fashion design contest in the world.
MBFWSL
Colombo, 5 Dec. 2022.
At Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (MBFW) Sri Lanka 2022, Ruwanthi focused on blending heritage craftsmanship with innovative reconstruction methods to minimize environmental impact.
Redress Design Award
Hong Kong, Sep. 2022.
Finalist with Take Me Home under the YAKADA label, exploring garments that adapt between urban life and the outdoors.
TFDA
Taipei, Taiwan, 2021.
Champion / Fashion Newcomer Award at the Taiwan Fashion Design Award, the earliest official fashion competition in Asia, presented through Taipei Fashion Week.
Graduate Fashion Week
London, UK, 2021.
International Catwalk presentation of kǣli, bringing Sri Lankan material storytelling into a major graduate fashion platform, where the work was recognised with First Runner-up.
The work has travelled further than any single project.
Across the entries above, four practices appear and reappear: cloth, dye and scent, sound, and curation. The studio treats them as one continuous method — different instruments for the same inquiry — but each project tends to lean on one or two more than the others. The tags trace which.
Together, they show how questions of ecology, memory, heritage, and repair have taken form across different platforms, from intimate workshops to international stages, without losing their material grounding.
Recognition has come from institutions inside and outside of fashion.
The practice has been shown at marine conferences, science weeks, design festivals, fashion weeks, refugee-week exhibitions, and university platforms. Each context asks the work to speak slightly differently. None of them quite contains the practice on its own, which is part of why the studio keeps moving.
What runs through everything is the cloth. Whether the room is a parliament, a beach, a science laboratory, or a runway, what enters the room first is the cloth — and what the cloth carries is the argument.