Ushara Dilrukshan

Ushara is a sonic performance artist and soprano working across expanded opera, composition, pipe organ and experimental theatre. 
She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art.

Work
  1. Triangle reshapes the O of my mouth (c. Anousha Payne)
  2. The Unattended Organ
  3. First Breath (V&A East)
  4. I am back from where I came
  5. Resonant Bodies
  6. 100 Instruction Scores to Overcome Trauma
  7. After Hunger
  8. Landscape Silence Night
  9. Guila Tofana
  10. Veilwork
  11. Weather Reports, Colomboscope
  12. Between walls and voices
  13. Celestial Conversations
  14. Sonic Relics
  15. To the shore
  16. Trembling Nearness
  17. Feedback for Three Amps and Vox
  18. Pooja
  19. Heavy is the head
  20. She’s what I smeared on the world
  21. The Light the Day Gave
  22. Even God Can’t Save You Now
  23. Empty Pipes
  24. Extensions
  25. Come Inside
  26. Fishermans Hymn
  27. Summer Solstice Drone
  28. Limbo
  29. As of Right Now
  30. Exhumation
  31. To Dunhinda Falls
  32. Mege Gerada

Curation
  1. Moments No1
  2. Yliaster
  3. Exhume

 Bandcamp
Sound Designs

Artist Statement
Instagram
First Breath (V&A East)
Vox | Movement
V&A East, April 2026

To mark the opening of V&A East Museum, the experimental vocal collective NYX responds to the Why We Make galleries through a series of acoustic vocal interventions unfolding across multiple levels of the building.  Moving between solo voices, small ensembles and roaming performers, visitors are invited to sound the new museum into being. 

Conceived as a live, site-specific work, First Breath responds directly to the galleries’ central proposition: making as a powerful, collective act capable of shaping how we live, care, dissent and imagine futures. Directed by Sian O'Gorman, Philippa Neels and Imogen Knight, voice and body move together through the building, tracing cycles of ascent and descent, gathering and dispersal, stillness and release.

Through an immersive sonic journey, Afromerm, Katya Barton, Rhianna Compton, Ushara Dilrukshan, Bones Tan Jones, Sian O'Gorman, Rachel Oyawale, AK Patterson, Plumm, and  Monique Sallé invite you to explore the human voice as a primary technology, one of the earliest tools through which people have told stories, passed knowledge, expressed belief, organised resistance and cared for one another.

Press:
V&A East