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
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Triangle reshapes the O of my mouth
Expanded Opera | Libretto
Sperling Gallery Munich, May 2026 c. Anousha Payne

Sperling presents Anousha Payne’s second exhibition in Munich, featuring a new collaboration with sound and performance artist Ushara. Expanding on Payne’s earlier exhibition at Sperling’s former Regerplatz space, the show combines sculpture, sound, and live performance to explore the ecology and psychology of the home. Inspired in part by Kitty Doherty’s concrete poem (from which the title is borrowed), various short stories, and personal experiences, it unfolds a narrative of growing anxiety as a protagonist becomes trapped within her domestic space, shaped by encounters with non-human presences.
Payne’s practice moves between personal experience, fiction, and myth, using assemblage, found objects, and cast bronze to question material hierarchies and cultural values. Ushara's sound- and performance-based work adds poetry, field recordings, and bodily presence, intensifying the exhibition’s emotional and psychological atmosphere.

‘Triangle reshapes the O of my mouth’ won the Various Others award for best exhibition and collaboration 2026.

Sperling Munich: Press
Various Others: Press
In Munich: Press

A four-act expanded opera inspired by Fluxus and Oulipo served as the exhibition’s performative framework, deepening the collaboration between Payne and Ushara through live sound, movement, and text.
Act 1: 
    Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott; Bach (reworked)
Act 2: 
    Instruction scores for cello and voice; Ushara Dilrukshan
Act 3: 
    Chitin; Ushara Dilrukshan
Act 4:
    Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans; Hildegard Von Bingen (reworked)







The full Libretto is available upon request.