Where memory,
and public life meet.
A selection of exhibitions, workshops, talks,
and recognitions across ARALU and Ruwanthi Gajadeera’s practice.
Green Grads
London, UK, 3–5 Feb. 2026. Presented S.O.S – Save Our Seas with Green Grads at Surface Design Show, situating the work within a curated platform for environmentally conscious graduate design.
Berlin Science Week
Berlin, Germany, 6 Nov. 2025. In dialogue with On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin, Sea Change invited participants to upcycle old garments while reflecting on waterways and the ocean system.
HK Fashion Summit
Hong Kong, 4 Dec. 2025. Keynote speech, Artivism to Change the Narrative of Fast Fashion, positioning material practice and storytelling as tools for shifting fashion’s dominant logic.
London Design Festival
London, UK, 13–21 Sep. 2025. Presented work in Tender Revolution, the RCA exhibition at Brompton Design District for London Design Festival, responding to design through care, attentiveness, and renewal.
RCA Fashion Expo
London, UK, 19 Jul. 2025. An exhibition presenting textile-led research through material, ocean ecology, and fashion, expanding S.O.S as an artistic and environmental inquiry.
European Youth Event
Strasbourg, France, 13–14 Jun. 2025. As lead artist for Unity Sail, I guided 100–150 young participants in creating a collective artwork on ocean activism and youth empowerment.
UN Ocean Conference
Nice, France, 2–13 Jun. 2025. In the Engage Area, S.O.S translated ocean science into a multisensory public encounter through textile, scent, and sound.
RCA SustainLAB
London, UK, 29 Apr.–2 May 2025. An exhibition of S.O.S – Save Our Seas, bringing cyanotype textiles, ecological research, and marine pollution into material dialogue.
SEAJunction
Bangkok, Thailand, 26 Apr. 2025. A cyanotype workshop and mini-exhibition exploring ocean pollution, textile waste, and solar printing as tactile public learning.
SLDF
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8–10 Nov. 2024. S.O.S returned to Sri Lanka through a pilot presentation and workshops on waste, repair, sea change, and local fashion systems.
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.
LV Graduates Initiative
Paris, France, 2024. Finalist in a graduate platform recognising design potential in accessories through concept strength, craft sensitivity, and development clarity.
International Flavors & Fragrances
London, UK, 2024. Winner for Ceremony of Life, a project exploring scent, ritual, and material storytelling through an interdisciplinary design lens.
Perfect 10
London, UK, 2024. Shortlisted finalist in the RCA x 100% Optical competition under the 2024 theme Perfect 10, developing eyewear from ten principles of good design for exhibition at 100% Optical.
Redress Design Award
Hong Kong, 2023. Runner-up in the Redress Design Award with kaeli – resurgence, a collection linking ocean protection, recycled material systems, and circular design.
MBFWSL
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Redress Design Award
Hong Kong, 2022. Finalist in the Redress Design Award with Take Me Home under the YAKADA label, exploring adaptable design between urban life and the outdoors.
TFDA
London, UK, 2021. International Catwalk presentation bringing Sri Lankan material storytelling into a global graduate fashion showcase, where the work was recognised with First Runner-up.
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.
A public record of how material inquiry has moved through exhibition, collaboration, and recognition.
Across exhibitions, workshops, talks, and awards, these moments trace the development of Ruwanthi Gajadeera and ARALU’s practice through fashion, textile, scent, sound, and installation. Each one marks a distinct public encounter.
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.
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Seen together, these moments read less as milestones than as points of translation, where material inquiry was asked to speak in different public settings. Each context brought its own audience, pressure, and possibilities, shaping how the work was experienced and what kinds of conversations it could open.
Across them runs a shared concern with what materials can do beyond appearance: carry memory, register loss, invite participation, and make ecological realities felt through the body. Whether intimate or large-scale, each moment extends the same practice of connecting matter, meaning, and public encounter.
